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Re 13 OCT 15
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 4th. September, 1915.
Sir,
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I have the honour to inform you that I have
carefully considered your Confidential Despatch of the 8th. of July and the correspondence with the Board of Trade on the subject of Trade Marks registered in the names of enemy subjects and firms.
In reply I have to inform you that I agree
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with you that the legislation referred to in the 2nd. paragraph of your Despatch is unnecessary.
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With regard to the report of the Comptroller
of Patents Designs and Trade Marks and to your comments thereon, I
desire to remark that no case has arisen here to which the principles indicated by the Comptroller as guiding the Board of Trade in suspending a Trade Mark are applicable.
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The nature of local questions has been explain-
-ed in my Confidential Despatch of the 22nd. of July. The only cases to which any weight is attached are those in which the use of pictorial devices upon piece goods is involved; and what any British Merchants here desire is either that they should be allow-
-ed to purchase compulsorily Trade Marks registered in enemy
names, or that the use of such marks should be suppressed for the duration of the war and if possible for ever. They have not asked for the temporary suspension of any mark in favour of themselves or of any one else.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDRE BONAR LAW, M.P.,
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