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The Registered Trade Mark Agents (Mixed Partnerships and Bodies Corporate) Rules 1994

S.I. 1994/363 · Made 17 February 1994

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TRADE MARKS

Made 17th February 1994

Laid before Parliament 3rd March 1994

Coming into force 24th March 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 283(4) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988f1 hereby makes the following Rules:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 48.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1

These Rules may be cited as the Registered Trade Mark Agents (Mixed Partnerships and Bodies Corporate) Rules 1994 and shall come into force on 24th March 1994.

2

In these Rules—

  • “the Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;

  • “registered trade mark agent” means a person whose name is entered in the register kept pursuant to rules made under section 282 of the Actf1;

3

For the purposes of section 283 of the Act (persons entitled to describe themselves as registered trade mark agents) the conditions to be satisfied, in the case of a partnership where not all the partners are registered trade mark agents or in the case of a body corporate where not all the directors are registered trade mark agents, are—

(a)

that each partner or, as the case may be, director shall be a person whose name is entered in at least one of the registers kept pursuant to rules made under sections 275 and 282 of the Actf1; and

(b)

that at least one-quarter of the partners or, as the case may be, the directors shall be registered trade mark agents.

Signature

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department of Trade and Industry

17th February 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Rules prescribe, for the purposes of section 283 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the conditions to be satisfied by partnerships or bodies corporate where all the partners or, as the case may be, directors are not registered trade mark agents in order for the partnership or body corporate to carry on business under the name or any description containing the words “registered trade mark agents”, or describe itself or permit itself to be described as such.