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communications as for their information only, especially when they are told that such communications are of a confidential nature, and you might hint that, if they wish to be consulted in future upon matters which concern their interests, they must be careful to abstain from any action such as has caused the present inquiry from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tôkiô.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[19181]
No. 1.
16 JUL 08
[June 30.]
SECTION 1,
Sir,
Foreign Office to Messrs. C. and E. Morton.
Foreign Office, June 30, 1908. WITH reference to your letters of the 2nd and 24th instant, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that at the present moment the question of a Convention with Japan for the mutual protection in China of British trade-marks registered in Japan and Japanese trade-marks registered in Great Britain is engaging the attention of His Majesty's Government, and that pending its conclusion little progress is likely to be made in the matter of the Chinese Regulations for the registration of trade-marks in China.
I am to point out that owing to the extraterritorial status of the various Treaty Powers in China, separate Agreements are necessary to obtain protection against piracy by nationals of the several Powers, and that it therefore follows that cases of piracy of British trade-marks by Japanese subjects in China would, provided the Convention at present in negotiation with Japan is successfully carried through, be heard in the Japanese Consular Courts, and not be affected by any agreement with China. Should, however, the imitations emanate from Japan itself, the remedy lies in instituting legal proceedings in that country against the offender. I am, &c.
(Signed)
F. A. CAMPBELL.
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