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I am directed to state for the information of your Committee that His Excellency the Governor has under consideration the question of amending the law of this Colony relating to the Registration of Trade Marks (Ordinance No. 6 of 1898), and that in this connection a letter has been received from the China Association requesting that assurance may be given that the protection, afforded to British Trade Marks under the proposed Convention between Great Britain and Japan for the mutual protection of their trade marks in China and Korea,will extend to marks registered in Hongkong.
2.
After careful examination of this subject, His Excellency concludes that it is clearly not possible for the British Government to extend protection in Japan, China and Korea to marks registered in Hongkong or in other Colonies, unless the Imperial Government itself controls such registra- -tion, i. e. unless the marks are registered in the United King- -dom. Otherwise a mark might be registered in Hongkong either by a British or non-British firm, which was the exact fac-simile of a mark registered in the United Kingdom: and in that case the Imperial Government would be pledged to extend protection to two identical marks against each other. This difficulty could, however, be overcome by requiring that as in the case of letters patent, trade marks should not be registered in the this Colony until they have been registered in the United King-
-don.
3.
On the other hand it has been represented to His Excellency that the majority of British merchants in
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Secretary,
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