14. Extension of time.- (1) If the Appellate Board is satisfied, on an application made to it in the prescribed Form 3 under these rules, that there is sufficient cause for extending the time for doing any act prescribed under these rules (not being a time expressly provided for in the Trade Marks Act, 1999) , whether the time so specified has expired or not, it may subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose, extend the time and inform the parties accordingly. (2) Nothing in sub-rule (1) shall be deemed to require the Appellate Board to hear the parties before disposing off an application for extension of time and no appeal shall lie from any order of the Appellate Board under this rule. |