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

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