
1 
These Rules may be cited as the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Amendment) Rules 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.
2 

(1) For Rules 64 and 65 of the Trade Marks and Service Marks Rules 1986 there shall be substituted the following Rules:“
64 

(1) At any time not earlier than three months nor later than one month before the expiration of the last registration of a trade mark or a service mark the Registrar shall, in accordance with Rule 13(5) above, send to the registered proprietor notice of the approaching expiration.
(2) The said notice shall be in the form of form TM 11 but need not be a replica of that form.
65 

(1) Renewal of registration shall be effected upon the filing of either—
(a) the notice sent in accordance with Rule 64 above or an exact replica thereof, or
(b) form TM 11,
duly completed and accompanied by the prescribed renewal fee.
(2) If the said filing is effected on or before the date one month before the expiration of the last registration, it shall be treated as having been effected on the first day after that date.”
(2) In Rule 66 of the said Rules, for the words “filing form TM 11” there shall be substituted the words “effecting the filing under Rule 65 above”.
(3) In paragraph (1) of Rule 67 of the said Rules there shall be inserted after the word “advertisement” the words “the notice or replica referred to in Rule 65(1)(a) above or”.
(4) Paragraph (2) of Rule 67 of the said Rules shall be left out.
(5) For form TM 11 set out in the Schedule to the Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) Rules 1986 there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Rules.
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(1) In Rule 16(f) of the Trade Marks and Service Marks Rules 1986, for the words “trade mark infringement” there shall be substituted the words “infringement of a trade mark or a service mark”.
(2) In Rule 59(3) of the said Rules, for the word “he” where it first appears there shall be substituted the words “the Registrar”.
John Butcher
Department of Trade and Industry
27th June 1988
SCHEDULE
Rule 2(5)
