Hong Kong Regulations

TRADE MARKS RULES - RULE 23

Notice of opposition

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OPPOSITION TO APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF A TRADE MARK (SECTION 15)

(1) Any person may within 2 months from the date of any advertisement in the
Gazette of an application for registration of a trade mark file in duplicate
on Form TM-No. 6 notice of opposition to the registration; and the Registrar
shall forthwith send the duplicate to the applicant.

(2) Notice of opposition shall include a statement of the grounds upon which
the opponent objects to the registration opposed.

(3) If registration is opposed on the ground that the mark resembles another
mark already on the register or the registration of which is the subject of a
current application, the number and class of that other mark and (except in
the case of a registered mark or a mark the subject of an application not yet
advertised) the date of the Gazette in which it has been advertised shall be
set out in the notice. (Enacted 1992)