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county of York (in this Act called the Cutlers' Company), and the marks or devices (in this Act called Sheffield marks) assigned or registered by the master, wardens, searchers, and assistants of that Company, the following provisions shall have effect :

(1.) The Cutlers' Company shall establish

and keep at Sheffield a new register of
trade marks (in this Act called the
Sheffield register):

2. The Cutlers' Company shall enter in the
Sheffield register, in respect of cutlery,
edge tools, or raw steel, and the goods.
mentioned in the next sub-section, all
the trade marks entered before the com-
mencement of this Act, in respect of
cutlery, edge tools, or raw steel, and
such goods in the register established
under the Trade Marks Registration
Act, 1875, belonging to persons carry-
ing on business in Hallamshire, or
within six miles thereof, and shall also
enter in such register, in respect of the
same goods, all the trade marks which
shall have been assigned by the Cutlers'
Company, and actually used before the
commencement of this Act, but which
have not been entered in the register
established under the Trade Marks
Registration Act, 1875.

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Marks.

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Trade Marks.

(3.) An application for registration of a trade mark used on cutlery, edge tools, or on raw steel, or on goods made of steel, or of steel and iron combined, whether with or without a cutting edge, shall, if made after the commencement of this Act by a person carrying on business in Hallamshire, or within six miles thereof, be made to the Cutlers' Company:

(4.) Every application so made to the Cutlers' Company shall be notified to the comptroller in the prescribed manner, and unless the comptroller within the prescribed time gives notice to the Cutlers' Company that he objects to the acceptance of the application, it shall be proceeded with by the Cutlers' Company in the prescribed

manner:

(5.) If the comptroller gives notice of
objection as aforesaid, the application
shall not be proceeded with by the
Cutlers' Company, but any person
aggrieved may appeal to the Court.
(6.) Upon the registration of a trade mark
in the Sheffield register the Cutlers'
Company shall give notice thereof to
the comptroller, who shall thereupon
enter the mark in the register of trade

marks; and such registration shall bear date as of the day of application to the Cutlers' Company, and have the same effect as if the application had been made to the comptroller on that day: (7.) The provisions of this Act, and of any general rules made under this Act, with respect to application for registration in the register of trade marks, the effect of such registration, and the assignment and transmission of rights in a registered trade mark shall apply in the case of applications and registration in the Sheffield register; and notice of every entry made in the Sheffield register must be given to the comptroller by the Cutlers' Company, save and except that the provisions of this sub-section shall not prejudice or affect any life, estate, and interest of a widow of the holder of any Sheffield mark which may be in force in respect of such mark at the time when it shall be placed upon the Sheffield register:

(8.) Where the comptroller receives from any person not carrying on business in Hallamshire or within six miles thereof an application for registration of a trade mark used on cutiery, edge tools, or on raw steel, or on goods made of steel, or

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Trade Marks.

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Trade
Marks.

of steel and iron combined, whether with or without a cutting edge, he shall in the prescribed manner notify the application and proceedings thereon to the Cutlers' Company:

(9.) At the expiration of five years from the commencement of this Act the Cutlers' Company shall close the Cutlers' register of corporate trade marks, and thereupon all marks entered therein shall, unless entered in the Sheffield register, be deemed to have been abandoned :

(10.) A person may (notwithstanding anything in any Act relating to the Cutlers' Company) be registered in the Sheffield register as proprietor of two or more trade marks :

(11.) A body of persons, corporate or not

corporate, may (notwithstanding anything in any Act relating to the Cutlers' Company) be registered in the Sheffield register as proprietor of a trade mark or trade marks:

(12.) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Cutlers' Company in respect of anything done or omitted under this Act may, in the prescribed manner, appeal to the comptroller, who shall have power to confirm, reverse or modify

the decision, but the decision of the
comptroller shall be subject to a further
appeal to the Court:

(13.) So much of the Cutlers' Company's
Acts as applies to the summary punish-
ment of persons counterfeiting Sheffield.
corporate marks, that is to say, the fifth
section of the Cutlers' Company's Act
of 1814, and the provisions in relation
to the recovery and application of the
penalty imposed by such last-mentioned
section contained in the Cutlers' Com-
pany's Act of 1791, shall apply to any
mark entered in the Sheffield register.

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Trade

Marks.

PART V.

GENERAL.

Patent Office and Proceedings thereat.

Part V. General.

82. (1.) The Treasury may provide for Patent Office. the purposes of this Act an office with all

requisite buildings and conveniences, which shall be called, and is in this Act referred to as, the Patent Office.

(2.) Until a new patent office is provided, the offices1 of the Commissioners of Patents

These offices are at 25, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.

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