This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
C.O. 731
[December 4, 1904]
SECTION 513 DEC 04
No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Board of Trade.
Foreign Office, December 5, 1904.
I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you, to be laid before the Board of Trade, the accompanying copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid, inclosing the reply of the Spanish Government to the inquiry which was addressed to them relative to the proposed Agreement between the two Governments for the mutual protection of British and Spanish trade-marks in China.
It will be noticed that the Spanish Government ask to be furnished with further information, and I am to say that Lord Lansdowne would be glad to be favoured with the opinion of the Board as to whether, in the event of the conclusion of the Agreement contemplated, the British Consular authorities in China are empowered by British law to protect Spanish trade-marks against infringement by British subjects, whether those marks have been previously registered in the United Kingdom or not.
If previous registration in the United Kingdom of the Spanish marks to be protected is not held to be necessary, his Lordship would propose to reply that His Majesty's Government are willing that the contemplated Agreement should apply to all marks, i.e., that the protection to be afforded to Spanish marks in the British Courts in China should not be dependent on those marks having been registered in the United Kingdom, and in like manner that British marks shall be protected in Spanish Courts in China, although they may not have been registered in Spain.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL,
* Sir H. Egerton, No. 153, November 11, 1904.
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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
C.O.
731
[Decenbor 42072
SECTION 513 DEC 04)
No. 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Board of Trade.
Foreign Office, December 5, 1904. I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you, to be laid before the Board of Trade, the accompanying copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid, inclosing the reply of the Spanish Government to the inquiry which was addressed to them relative to the proposed Agreement between the two Governments for the mutual protection of British and Spanish trade-marks in China,
It will be noticed that the Spanish Government ask to be furnished with further information, and I am to say that Lord Lansdowne would be glad to be favoured with the opinion of the Board as to whether, in the event of the conclusion of the Agree- ment contemplated, the British Consular authorities in China are empowered by British law to protect Spanish trade-marks against infringement by British subjects, whether those marks have been previously registered in the United Kingdom or not.
If previous registration in the United Kingdom of the Spanish marks to be pro- tected is not held to be necessary, his Lordship would propose to reply that Iis Majesty's Government are willing that the contemplated Agreement should apply to all marks, i.e., that the protection to be afforded to Spanish marks in the British Courts in China should not be dependent on those marks having been registered in the United Kingdom, and in like manner that British marks shall be protected in Spanish Courts in China, although they may not have been registered in Spain.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL,
* Sir H. Egerton, No. 153, November 11, 1904.
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