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sir,
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,
Hongkong, 23rd. October, 1908.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th. October (No. 2692/1908) stating for the information of my 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, and invit- -ing an expression of opinion as to whether British Merchants in the Colony desire, by registering their marks in Hongkong, merely to secure local protection, or whether they desire to secure protection in China, Korea and Japan as well, in which case His Excellency is of opinion that prior registration in the United Kingdom will be indispensable as a condition precedent
to registration in Hongkong.
In paragraph 2 you state that His Excellency
thinks it is not possible for the British Government to extend protection in China, Korea and Japan, to marks registered in Hongkong, or in other Colonies, unless the Imperial Government itself controls such legislation, 1... unless the marks are
registered in the United Kingdom.
If this view of the matter be accepted the alternatives with regard to which an opinion is invited have inevitably to be faced, but I am to point out that there is another view of the matter which affects the question. This other view is that Registration does not confer a right. Rights are conferred by usage. Registration is only one of a number of safeguards to such rights. If the latter view is correct there appears to be no good reason why the British Government should not protect marks registered in Hongkong, but not in the United- Kingdom, in so far as to accept that registration as evidence
of a claim to prior usage.
Thus