Trade Marks Act · s 37

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s 37Temporary protection

(1)

The applicant for registration of a mark who has at an international exhibition falling within the terms of the Convention relating to

International Exhibitions signed in Paris on 22nd November 1928, as revised or amended, exhibited goods bearing that mark or services rendered under that mark, and who has applied for registration of that mark within 6 months from the day on which the goods bearing that mark or those services were first so exhibited shall, on his request, be deemed to have applied for registration on that day.

(2)

Evidence of the exhibition of such goods or services shall be given by a certificate issued by the competent authority of the exhibition, stating the date on which the mark was first used in connection with those goods or services.

(3)

This section does not extend any other priority claimed by the applicant.

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