The Registered Designs Rules 1995

ADDRESS

Address for service

8.—(1) There shall be furnished to the registrar—

(a) by every applicant for the registration of a design, an address for service in the United Kingdom for the purpose of his application; and

(b) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) below, by every person (including the applicant for registration of a design or the proprietor of a registered design, as the case may be) concerned in any proceedings to which any of these Rules relate, an address for service in the United Kingdom,

and the address so furnished or, where another address (being an address in the United Kingdom) has been furnished in place thereof, that address shall be treated for the purposes of that application or those proceedings, as appropriate, as the address of that applicant or, as the case may be, of that person.

(2) Upon the registration of a design, the applicant’s address for service shall be treated as the address for service of the proprietor of the registered design unless an alternative address is furnished.

(3) An address for service for an applicant for registration of a design, or a proprietor of a registered design, may be withdrawn by the applicant or the proprietor or an agent or other person providing the address for service, as the case may be, by notice to the registrar; and upon such notification the registrar may treat the address of the applicant or the proprietor previously notified to him, or the address shown in the register, as the address for service until such time as an alternative address is furnished.

Failure to provide address for service

9.  Where an address for service in the United Kingdom has not been furnished to the registrar by an applicant in any proceedings to which these Rules relate, the registrar need not proceed with the examination of the application until such an address has been furnished to him.