DESIGNS RULES, 1883. By virtue of the provisions of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883, the Board of Trade do hereby make the following Rules: Interpretation. Fees. Forms. Commencement. 1. These Rules may be cited as the Designs Rules, 1883, and shall come into operation from and immediately after the 31st day of December 1883. Interpretation. 2. In the construction of these Rules any words herein used defined by the said Act shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively. Fees. 3. The fees to be paid under the said Act, so far as it relates to applications for and registration of designs, shall be the fees specified in the First Schedule hereto. Forms. 4. An application for the registration of a design shall be made in the Form E in the Second Schedule hereto. The remaining forms in such Schedule may be used in all cases to which they are applicable. Classification of Goods. 5. For the purposes of the registration of designs and of Classification of goods. these Rules, goods are classified in the manner appearing in the Third Schedule hereto. This is a re-enactment, with considerable alterations, of the classes contained in the 3rd section of the Act of 1842. Application for Registration. 6. All communications between an applicant for the regis- Agents. tration of a design and the Comptroller or the Board of Trade, as the case may be, may be made by or through an agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Comptroller. Comptroller. 7. An application for the registration of a design shall, Address of with the prescribed fee, be left at the Patent Office, Designs Branch, or be sent prepaid by post, addressed to the Comptroller at the Patent Office, (Designs Branch,) 25, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London. 8. An application for the registration of a design, and all Size of drawings, sketches, photographs, or tracings of a design, and papers. all other documents sent to or left at the Patent Office, Designs Branch, or otherwise furnished to the Comptroller or to the Board of Trade, shall be written, printed, copied, or drawn upon strong wide-ruled foolscap paper (on one side only), of the size of 13 inches by 8 inches, leaving a margin of not less than one inch and a half on the left-hand part thereof, and the signature of the applicants or agents thereto must be written in a large and legible hand. The Comptroller may in any particular case vary the requirements of this Rule as he may think fit. drawings. 9. An application for the registration of a design shall be Sketches and accompanied by a sketch or drawing, or by three exactly similar drawings, photographs, or tracings of the design, or by three specimens of the design, and shall, in describing the nature of the design, state whether it is applicable for the Nature of pattern or for the shape or configuration of the design, and the means by which it is applicable. design. Acknowledg ment to applicant. Notice of registration. Applications may be sent by post. Hearing by Hearing by When sketches, drawings, or tracings are furnished they must be fixed. When the articles to which designs are applied are not of a kind which can be pasted into books, drawings, photographs, or tracings of such designs shall be furnished. Nature of the design." See form E, post, and ante, p. 147. "Shape or configuration." See ante, p. 154. 10. On receipt of an application for registration the Comptroller shall send to the applicant an acknowledgment thereof. 11. If the Comptroller determines to register a design, he shall as soon as may be send to the applicant a certificate of such registration in the prescribed form, sealed with the seal of the Patent Office. See Form G, Second Schedule, post, p. 275. 12. Any application, notice, or other document authorized or required to be left, made, or given at the Patent Office or to the Comptroller or to any other person under these Rules may be sent by a prepaid letter through the post, and if so sent shall be deemed to have been left, made, or given respectively at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post. In proving such service or sending it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and put into the post. 13. Before exercising any discretionary power given to the Comptroller by the said Act adversely to an applicant for registration of a design the Comptroller shall give him ten days' notice of the time when he may be heard personally or by his agent before the Comptroller. 14. Within five days from the date when such notice Comptroller. would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, the applicant shall notify to the Comptroller whether or not he intends to be heard upon the matter. Notification of 15. The decision or determination of the Comptroller in Comptroller's the exercise of any such discretionary power as aforesaid shall be notified to the applicant. decision. |