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Limited, and we have now been required by the Japanese Patent
Office to associate the two marke, a procedure which is similar
to that in the United Kingdom, and which has the effect of
precluding the sale of the one trade mark so associated, and
the goodwill attaching thereto, without at the same time
conveying the other mark or marke so associated, and the
goodwill attaching to them.
On the 13th. November 1911, we forwarded to you a
copy of the letter of the 21st. October 1911, received by
British Cigarette Company, Limited from that Company's
Trade Mark Agent in Tokio,
You were good enough to communicate with His Majesty's
Ambassador at Tokio sending him instructions to enquire
of the Japanese Government, the reasons which caused the
Japanese Patent Bureau to refuse to register marks of British
Cigarette Company, Limited.
In your letter to us of the 18th. March 1912, you stated
that the Japanese Government, in reply to Sir C. Macdonald,
nade no reference to the inapplicability of the Japanese
Trade Marks law to British Companies domiciled or
registered in Hongkong.
It is preferable to register in Japan, marks of
British Cigarette Company, Limited, Hongkong, in the
name of the owner, and not in the name of this Company.
We shall be glad if you will kindly take up the
matter with the Japanese Government in order that British
Cigarette Company, Limited may be allowed to register
their marks in Jepan in their own nane,
We are &C.,
(British American Tobacco Company, Limited)
(Signed) Joseph Hood.
Director.
Trade
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