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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Governmensi

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL

No. 1.

12544 [March 31.]

RECE SECTION 2.15 APR J5.

The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir A. Nicolson.

(No. 31.) Sir,

I REFERRED to the Board of Trade, for their consideration, Sir E. Egerton's

Foreign Office, March 31, 1905. despatch No. 153 of the 11th November, 1904, relative to the proposed Agreement between the two Governments for the mutual protection of British and Spanish trade- marks in China. The Board were asked whether the British Consular authorities in China are empowered by British law to protect Spanish trade-marks against infringe- ment by British subjects, whether those marks have been previously registered in the United Kingdom or not.

I inclose, for your Excellency's information, a copy of a letter which has been received from the Board in reply.*

I request that you will inform the Spanish Government that His Majesty's Government are willing that the contemplated Agreement should apply to all marks- i.c., 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 the Spanish Courts in China although they may not have been registered in Spain.

I am, &c. (Signed) LANSDOWNE.

* Board of Trade, March 23, 1905.

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