THIRD SCHEDULE. CLASSIFICATION OF ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND SUBSTANCES. Classes. 1. Articles composed wholly or partly of metal, not included in Class 2. 2. Jewellery. 3. Articles composed wholly or partly of wood, bone, ivory, papier 8. Carpets and rugs in all materials, floorcloths, and oilcloths. 9. Lace, hosiery. 10. Millinery and wearing apparel, including boots and shoes. 11. Ornamental needlework on muslin or other textile fabrics. 12. Goods not included in other classes. 13. Printed or woven designs on textile piece goods. TRADE MARKS 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: Preliminary. 1. These Rules may be cited as the Trade Marks 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 Interpretation. used defined by the said Act shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively. Fees. 3. The fees to be paid in pursuance of the said Act, so far Fees. as it relates to trade marks, shall be the fees specified in the First Schedule hereto. Forms. 4. The Form F in the First Schedule to the said Act shall Forms. be altered or amended by the substitution therefor of the Form F in the Second Schedule to these Rules. 5. (1) An application for registration of a trade mark shall be made in the Form F in the Second Schedule to these Rules; (2) The remaining forms in such Schedule may be used in all cases to which they are applicable. Classification of goods. Classification of Goods. 6. For the purposes of trade marks registration and of these Rules goods are classified in the manner appearing in the Third Schedule hereto (a). If any doubt arises as to what class any particular description of goods belongs to, the doubt shall be determined by the Comptroller. (a) See ante, p. 164. Application by firm. Agency. Acknowledg Application for Registration. 7. An application for registration of a trade mark, if made by any firm or partnership, may be signed by some one or more members of such firm or partnership, as the case may be. If the application be made by a body corporate it may be signed by the Secretary or other principal officer of such body corporate. 8. An application for registration and all other communications between the applicant and the Comptroller may be made by or through an agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Comptroller. 9. On receipt of the application the Comptroller shall ment of appi- furnish the applicant with an acknowledgment thereof. cation. Contents of cation. 10. Where application is made to register a trade mark form of app li- which was used by the applicant or his predecessors in business before the 13th of August 1875, the application shall contain a statement of the time during which and of the person by whom it has been so used in respect of the goods mentioned in the application. Size, &c., of documents. See ante, pp. 159, 164. 11. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the Comptroller, all applications, notices, counter-statements, representations of marks, papers having representations affixed, or other documents required by the said Act or by these Rules to be left with or sent to the Comptroller or to the Cutlers' |