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Part V · Chapter XIX Marks and Trade Names

119. Renewal

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Registration of a mark may be renewed for consecutive periods of ten years each on payment of the prescribed fee.

(2)

Renewal of registration of a mark shall not be subject to any further examination of the mark by the Director-General or to opposition by any person.

(3)

The renewal fee shall be paid within the twelve months preceding the date of expiration of the period of registration :

Provided, however, that a period of grace of six months shall be allowed for the payment of the fee after the date of such expiration, upon payment of such surcharge as may be prescribed.

(4)

The Director-General shall record in the register and cause to be published in the Gazette in the prescribed form all renewals of registration specifying any removal from the lists of goods or services.

(5)

Where the renewal fee has not been paid within such period or such extended period specified in subsection (3), the Director-General shall remove the mark from the register.

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