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February 18 IP: MAR 12,
Sir:
With reference to your despatch No.252(50985/11)
of the 22nd December last, instructing me to enquire of
the Japanese Government the reasons which had caused the
Patent Bureau to refuse to register the trademarks of
the British Cigarette Company registered at Hongkong,
I addressed a Note to Viscount Uchida, copy of which is
enclosed herewith.
In His Excellency's reply, copy of which I have
also the honour to enclose, no reference whatever is
made to the question of the inapplicability of the
Japanese Trade Marks Law to British firms domiciled or
registered in Hongkong on account of that Colony not
having adhered to the Treaty. The reasons for the re-
fusal to register are the ordinary ones of similarity to.
an already registered mark.
As it seemed that the marks referred to might be
different from those mentioned in your despatch, I in-
structed the Commercial Attaché to obtain copies of the
"Quaisin"
Right Honourable
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,
&c., &c., &c.