valid so far as relates to the official proceedings under this Act.
TRADE MARKS.
What shall be deemed trade marks.2. For the purposes of this Act, all marks, names, brands, labels, packages or other business devices, which may be adopted for use by any person in his trade, business, occupation or calling, for the purpose of distinguishing any manuiacture, product or article of any description by him manufactured, produced, compounded, packed or offered for sale, no matter how applied, whether to such manufacture, product or article, or to any package, parcel, case, box or other vessel or receptacle of any description whatever containing the same, shall be considered and known as Trade Marks, and may be registered for the exclusive use of the party registering the same in the manner hereinafter provided; Exclusive right to use registered mark.and thereafter he shall have the exclusive right to use the same, to designate articles manufactured or sold by him, and for the purposes of this Act, timber and lumber of any kind upon which labor has been expended by any person in his trade, business, occupation or calling &hall be deemed a manufacture, product or article.
Trademarks may be cancelled.4. Any person having registered a Trade Mark may petition for the cancellation of the same, and the Minister of Agriculture may cause, on receiving such petition, the said Trade Mark to be so cancelled; and the same shall after such cancellation be considered as if it had never been registered under the name of the said party.
Registered trade marks assignable.5. Every Trade Mark registered in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture shall be assignable in law, and on the assignment being produced and the fee hereinafter provided being paid, the Minister of Agriculture shall cause the name of the assignee, with the date of the assignment and such other details as he may see fit, to be entered on the margin of the Register of Trade Marks on the folio where such Trade Mark is registered.
Conflicting claims to a trademark how to be dealt with.6. If any person shall make application to register, as his own, any trade mark, which has been already registered, the Minister of Agriculture shall cause all parties interested therein to be notified to appear, in person or by Attorney, before him, with their witnesses, for the purpose of establishing which is the rightful owner of such trade mark, and after having heard the parties and their witnesses, the said Minister shall order such entry or cancellation, or both, to be made as he shall deem just; in the absence of the said Minister, his Deputy may hear and determine the case and make such entry or cancelation or both, as to right and justice may appertain, and, similarly, any error in Registering Trade Marks or any oversight about conflicting registrations of Trade Marks may be settled in the same manner.
