which
can only be registered in respect
of particular goods or classes of goods.
and can only be assigned in connection with
the good-will of the business concerned in the goods
for which it has been registered.
With regard
therefore to the question whether registered
trademarks of firms now being liquidated under
the Alien. Enemies Winding Up Ordinances are
subsisting or not, it would seem plain that,
1
as Section 5 (7) of the principal Ordinance,
as amended by Section 4 of the amending
ordinance e expressly preserves the good-will of the
firm
liquidated trademarks registered in the name of liquid
the firm affected y must still be regarded as
subsisting. In these circumstances it appears
to me unnecessary and, perhaps, undesirable to
enact any legislation with a view to making this
ition clear. Should you, however, be of a
contrary opinion I will not object to the
introduction of legislation for this purpose.
3. With regard to the question whether
liquidators should be empowered to sell
trademarks of enemy firms whose local assets
are
are insufficient to meet their local
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with
respect I do not agree the first para-
graph of the report of the Controller of
Patents, Designs and Trademarks, a copy
of which forms the first enclosure to the
Board of Trade letter of the 8th of June
above referred to.
5. With regard to the question
whether non-enemy persons and firms
formerly interested in the sale of goods
and trademarks registered in enemy names
should not be given licences to use these
trademarks during the war, and to the second paragraph of the report of the
*Controller, I have to explain that the objection