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their own name differently on the outside) have registered a different “marque de fabrique," and place it likewise on a loose slip of paper in the inside, where no purchaser would see it till the transaction was complete. Save for the difference in the "marques de fabrique," the two slips of paper are printed and decorated on similar lines, and inform purchasers that "Messrs. Shukon's" (or Messrs. Mouson's, as the case may be) toilet soaps are constantly being imitated by unscrupulous competitors, who endeavour to copy not only the shape and label, but also the number and packing adopted. To prevent consumers from being imposed upon and receiving an inferior and unsound article, attention is called to the firm and trade-mark which appear on every packet." It is perhaps a coincidence that both firms were established in 1789.
The other sample sent by the Shanghae Committee is not quite so bad a case of infringement, but rather worse as an example of dishonesty, inasmuch as both packets purport to contain ten cigarettes, whereas, in point of fact, the Japanese packet contains but three. The packets are got up in the same sort of way, but one is clearly marked "Pheasant Cigarettes" and the other "Peacock Cigarettes," a difference which would in all probability entitle the Japanese manufacturer to avoid an action for infringement. The registered trade-mark of one make is "M" (in a diamond frame), of the other "N" (in a diamond frame). One packet informs purchasers that "Every genuine package of 'Peacock' cigarettes has our signature thus: 'Murai Bros. Co. Ltd.," the other, "Every genuine packet of 'Pheasant cigarettes has our signature thus: 'Manufacture at Nipon Osake,' truly an unusual signature.
C. GRENVILLE ALABASTER,
October 27, 1907.
(Signed)
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