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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
[August 28.]
SECTION 2.
Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received August 28.)
(No. 234.) My Lord,
Peking, July 3, 1905. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith, with reference to your despatch No. 74 of the 27th March, copy of notes which I have exchanged with my American colleague on the subject of the mutual protection of British and American trade-marks in China.
I have sent a copy of these notes to Ilis Majesty's Consular officers in China and to the Judge of the Supreme Court at Shanghae.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
ERNEST SATOW.
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Mr. Rockhill to Sir E. Satow.
Mr. Minister and dear Colleague,
Peking, June 28, 1905. THE Acting Secretary of State of the United States has informed me in an instruction dated the 17th April, 1905, that you have been authorized by your Government to enter into a reciprocal agreement with me for the mutual protection of trade-marks registered in the United States and Great Britain against infringement in China by the citizens or subjects of our respective nations, and he has given me authority to effect with you, by an exchange of notes, an agreement for the reciprocal protection of American and British trade-marks in China.
In pursuance of the general agreement reached between our respective Govern- ments on the subject, it affords me much satisfaction to agree, on behalf of the Government of the United States, that henceforth trade-marks of British subjects, having been duly registered in the United States of America, will be protected against infringement by such persons as come under the jurisdiction of the United States' Consular Courts in China, in which effectual provision exists for the punish- ment of such infringements by American citizens.
I have, &c. (Signed)
W. W. ROCKHILL.
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Sir E. Satow to Mr. Rockhill.
Mr. Minister and dear Colleague,
Peking, June 28, 1905. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, informing me that you have been authorized by your Government to effect with me by an exchange of notes an agreement for the reciprocal protection of American and British trade-marks in China.
I beg to thank you for this communication, and to assure you that it affords me much satisfaction to enter into this reciprocal agreement, and that henceforth protection will be afforded in China by His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Corea and the Provincial Courts, to trade-marks of citizens of the United States which have been duly registered in Great Britain in conformity with "The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Acts, 1883 to 1888,"
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