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Cap. 55.
Trade Mark and Design Act, 1868.
31 Vict.

Action of damages for using trade mark.12. Notwithstanding anything in the preceding sections contained, a suit may be maintained by any proprietor of a trade mark against any person using his registered trade mark, or any fraudulent imitation thereof, or selling articles bearing such trade mark, or any such imitation thereof, or contained in packages being or purporting to be his, contrary to the provisions of this Act.

Registration of Designs.

Copyright of regisered design.13. The Copyright acquired for an industrial design by the Registration of the same as aforesaid shall be valid for the term of five years.

Registration of design, how made.14. Every design to be protected must be registered before publication; and, after Registration, the name of the proprietor, who must be a resident of Canada, shall appear upon the article to which his design applies; if the manufacture be a woven fabric, by printing upon one end; if another substance, at the edge or upon any convenient parts, the letters Rd., with the mention of the year of the Registration; the mark may be put upon the manufacture by making it on the material itself, or by attaching thereto a label containing the proper marks.

Proprietor of design.15. The author of the design shall be considered the proprietor thereof, unless he has executed the design for another person, for a good or valuable consideration, in which case such other person shall be considered the proprietor, and shall alone be entitled to register it; but his right to the property shall only be co-extensive with the right which he may have acquired.

Designs assignable in law.16. Every design shall be assignable in law, either as to the whole interest or any undivided part thereof, by an instrument in writing, which assignment shall be recorded in the office of the Minister of Agriculture, on payment of the the fees hereinafter provided; And every proprietor of a design may grant and convey an exclusive right, under any copyright, to make, use and vend, and to grant to others to make, use and vend such design within and throughout Canada, or any part thereof, for the unexpired term thereof or any part thereof; which exclusive grant and conveyance shall be called a license, and shall be recorded in the same maimer and within the same delay as assignments.

No person to use a registered design without license.17. During the existence of the right (whether it be of the entire or partial use of such design,) no person shall, without the license in writing of the registered proprietor, apply such design, or a fraudulent imitation thereof, to the ornamenting of any article of manufacture, &c., for the purposes of sale, or publish, sell, or expose for sale or use any article of manufacture, &c., to which such design, or fraudulent imitation
thereof