Hong Kong Regulations

TRADE MARKS RULES - RULE 75

Application by registered proprietor for conversion of specification

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) Where the specification of a registered trade mark is founded on Schedule
3 the registered proprietor may apply to the Registrar by filing Form TM-No.
42 for the conversion of that specification so that it may be founded on Part
1 of Schedule 4, whether with or without the striking out of goods therefrom,
but so that the registration retains its original date, and he shall include
in the application a request for the like conversion of the specification of
the goods of any registered users under that registration.

(2) After receipt of such application the Registrar, in accordance with
section 54(3), shall send to the registered proprietor a proposal showing the
form which, in the Registrar's view, the amendment of the register should
take.

(3) Two or more registrations of a trade mark in respect of goods falling
within the same class of Part 1 of Schedule 4, having the same date of
registration, may be amalgamated upon conversion in accordance with this rule.
(Enacted 1992)