"LAW NOTES" LIBRARY FOR PRACTITIONERS AND STUDENTS. N.B.-If any Text-Book is required of which no copy happens to be in the Library at the time, a copy, if in print at the Publishers, is procured as soon as possible. Apply to the LIBRARIAN: 25 & 26, CHANCERY LANE, W.C. [Telegraphic Address: "LAW NOTES, London."] [Telephone: HOLBORN, 780.] Published April, 1907. Price 5s.; post free, 5s. 3d. A NEW CONSOLIDATED INDEX TO THE ARTICLES AND STATUTES IN THE 25 VOLUMES OF Law Notes, 1882 to 1906. Published February, 1905. Price £1 10s.; post free for Cash, £1 4s. 9d. A FOURTH EDITION of the Student's Statute Law By A. GIBSON, A. WELDON, and H. GIBSON RIVINGTON, M.A. OXON. In preparing this Edition the greatest care has been taken to include all the Leading Statutes, and to thoroughly revise the explanatory notes to the sections, so as to make the work valuable alike to the Student and the Practitioner. "The book as a whole is a remarkably full guide to the most necessary Statute Law, and the practitioner as well as the student will be likely to prove its utility in this new edition."—Solicitors' Journal, 4th March, 1905. THE STUDENT'S STATUTE LAW. "Law Notes" Publishing Offices, 25 & 26, Chancery Lane, W.C. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1907. No. 949. Eng 155 P295 908 DESIGNS. THE DESIGNS RULES, 1908. DATED DECEMBER 17, 1907. By virtue of the provisions of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, hereinafter referred to as "the Act," the Board of Trade do hereby make the following Rules: PRELIMINARY. 1. These Rules may be cited as the Designs Rules, 1908, and shall come into operation from and immediately after the 31st day of December, 1907. INTERPRETATION. tion. 2. In the construction of these Rules any words herein used, Interpreta the meaning of which is defined by the Act, shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively. 66 Agent means an agent resident or having a place of business in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, duly authorised to the satisfaction of the Comptroller. "Office" means the Patent Office, Designs Branch, 25, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C. "Journal" means the Illustrated Official Journal (Patents). Specimen means an article of manufacture or a substance with the design applied to it. 66 'Lodged" means left at the Office or sent through the post by a prepaid letter addressed to the Comptroller at the Office. FEES. 3. The fees to be paid in pursuance of the Act, so far as it Fees. relates to designs, shall be the fees specified in the First Schedule hereto. FORMS. 4. The forms herein referred to are the forms contained in Forms. the Second Schedule hereto, and such forms shall be used in all cases to which they are applicable and shall be modified as directed by the Comptroller to meet other cases. 5400 Wt 96 1/08 D & S 32 8481r Sets of articles. Classification of goods. Size, &c., of documents. Signature of documents. Service of documents." Address, SETS OF ARTICLES. 5. "Set" means a number of articles of the same general character ordinarily on sale together, or intended to be used together, all bearing the same design with or without modifications not sufficient to alter the character or not substantially affecting the identity thereof. Where there is any doubt whether given articles do or do not constitute a set, the doubt shall be determined by the Comptroller. CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS. 6. For the purposes of the registration of designs and of these Rules, goods are classified in the manner appearing in the Third Schedule hereto. If any doubt arises as to the class to which any particular description of goods belongs, it shall be determined by the Comptroller. DOCUMENTS. 7. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the Comptroller, all applications, notices, papers having representations affixed, and other documents required by the Act or by these Rules to be lodged shall be upon strong paper, and, except where otherwise required, on one side only, of a size of approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, and having on the lefthand part thereof a margin of approximately two inches. 8. A document lodged by a firm or partnership may be signed in the firm's name or for and on behalf of the firm or partnership by any one or more members thereof. A document lodged by a body corporate may be signed by a director or by the secretary or other principal officer of such body corporate. 9. Any application, statement, notice or other document authorised or required to be lodged or to be left made or given with or to any person under the Act or these Rules may be sent through the post by a prepaid or official paid letter; any document so sent shall be deemed to have been delivered at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving such service or sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and put into the post. ADDRESS. 10. Where any person is by the Act or these Rules bound to furnish the Comptroller with an address, the following provisions shall apply: The address given shall in all cases be as full as possible, for the purpose of enabling any person easily to find the place of business of the person whose address is given. When a person does not reside in a town with streets, the Comptroller may require the address to include all indications which he thinks necessary for such purpose as far as it can be attained. When an applicant resides in a town where there are streets, the address given shall include the name of the street and the number in the street or name of premises, if any. service. 11. Where a registered proprietor of a design lives out of Address for the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, he may furnish the Comptroller on Form Designs No. 6 with an address for service within the United Kingdom, which shall be entered in the Register. All notices and documents, which under these Rules are required to be sent to the registered proprietor, shall be deemed duly sent if sent to him at his registered address if that address be within the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, or where the registered proprietor lives outside the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, to his address for service, if any, on the Register. Where a registered proprietor lives out of the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man and has not furnished such address for service, the Comptroller need not send to him any notice which under these Rules the Comptroller is required to send. Where an applicant lives out of the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, he shall furnish the Comptroller with an address for service within the United Kingdom, and until he does so the Comptroller need not proceed with the examination of his application. When such address for service is furnished it shall, on the registration of the design, be entered in the Register as the address for service of the proprietor. AGENTS. 12. An application for registration and all other communi- Agency. cations between an applicant and the Comptroller, or the Board of Trade, and between the registered proprietor of a design and the Comptroller, or the Board of Trade, or any other person, may be made by or through an agent. Any such applicant or proprietor may appoint an agent to represent him in the matter of the design by signing and sending to the Comptroller an authority in writing to that effect in the Form Designs No. 1, or in such other form as the Comptroller may deem sufficient. In case any registered proprietor of a design shall appoint such an agent, service upon such agent of any document relating to such design shall be deemed to be service upon the person so appointing him, and all communications directed to be made to such person in respect of such design may be addressed to such agent. 8250 A 2 |