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JAPAN.
[February 21.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
COD
of 27 MAR
SECTION 2.
528
[6458]
Sir,
No. 1.
London Chamber of Commerce to Foreign Office.--(Received February 21.)
Oxford Court, Cannon Street, London, February 20, 1911. REFERRING to my communication of the 18th instant, conveying the terms of a resolution of the patents, trade-marks, and designs section of this chamber, agreed to at its meeting on the 15th instant with regard to the proposed Trade-mark Convention with Japan, I shall be obliged if you will kindly omit the words "in the respective countries" in lines 10 and 11 thereof. The resolution will therefore read as follows:
"That this section having considered the proposed convention and counter-draft convention between Great Britain and Japan, are of opinion that no convention would be safe or acceptable to British interests which does not include a provision that all disputes arising as to the right to use a trade-mark shall be decided solely on the grounds of priority of user in China. It is also of opinion that it is desirable in any convention to protect both registered and unregistered trade-marks so long as a bond fide user can be established."
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I am, &c.
CHARLES E. MUSGRAVE,
Secretary,