Rev. 2009]
Trade Marks
CAP. 506
Address
67
[Subsidiary]
12. (1) Where any person is by the Act or these Rules bound to furnish Address.
the Registrar with an address, the address given shall in all cases be as full as
possible, for the purpose of enabling any person easily to find the place of trade
or business of the person whose address is given.
(2) The Registrar may require the address to include the name of the
street and the plot number in the street of the premises.
13. (1) The Registrar may require an applicant, opponent or agent, or a Address for service.
registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark, who does not reside or
carry on business within Kenya to give an address for service within Kenya, and
that address may be treated as the actual address of that person for all purposes
connected with the matter in question.
(2) Any registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark, or any
person about to be registered as such, may give in form TM 32 an address
for service for entry in the register, and such address may be entered by the
Registrar.
(3) All applications in form TM 32 under this rule shall be signed by
the applicant for registration or the registered proprietor or registered user, as
the case may be, or by an agent expressly authorized by him for the purpose
of such an application, unless in exceptional circumstances the Registrar
otherwise allows.
(4) In any case in which no address for service is entered in the register,
the Registrar may treat the trade or business address of the registered proprietor
or registered user as therein entered as his address for service for all purposes
connected with the registration.
(5) Any written communication addressed to a party or person as aforesaid
at an address given by him, or treated by the Registrar, as his address for service
shall be deemed to be properly addressed.
(6) The Registrar, at any time that a doubt arises as to the continued
availability of an address for service entered in the register, may request the
person for whom it is entered, by letter addressed to his trade or business address
in the register, to confirm the address for service, and if within three months of
making such a request the Registrar receives no confirmation of that address
he may strike it off the register.
Agents
14. (1) Except as otherwise required by these Rules, any application, Agency.
request or notice which is required or permitted by the Act or these Rules to
be made or given to the Registrar or the court, and all other communications
between an applicant or a person making such a request or giving such a
notice and the Registrar, or the court, and between the registered proprietor
or a registered user of a trade mark and the Registrar or the court or any other