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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

No. 1.

509

[April 12.]

SECTION 1.

Sir,

Board of Trade to Foreign Office.-(Received April 12.)

Board of Trade, April 11, 1905.

WITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the registration of trade-marks in China, I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and for communication to Sir E. Satow, three copies of the draft Regulations prepared by the Board of Trade, showing, in erased type and italics, the amendments suggested after consultation with the principal Chambers of Commerce interested in the matter.

The Board presume that the question of fees to be charged under the Regulations will be dealt with in a schedule to be appended to the Regulations, or by further Regulations, but they trust that all fees will be as low as possible, and that if any fees are charged in respect of deposited marks they will be merely nominal in amount.

With respect to the question of the removal of marks from the register which have not been used, or the use of which has been abandoned, I am to inclose a copy of a Memorandum by the Registrar of Trade-marks on the subject.

I am, &c.

(Signed) FRANCIS J. S. HOPWOOD,

(Confidential.)

Number of Paragrapli.

1

Inclosure 1 in No. 1.

Draft Regulations for the Registration of Trade-marks in China.

All merchants, Chinese or foreign, persons who have lawfully used marks in China prior to the date when these regulations come into force 1st January, 1903, may apply to be registered under these Regulations, or, if they prefer it, may deposit, free of charge, with the Registrar specimens in triplicate of the marks they have used, endorsed with the particulars of the goods on which they have been used, and with the name of the proprietor who claims to have lawfully used the mark. The Registrar shall arrange together in due order such deposited marks, and the collection so arranged is hereinafter referred to as such collection. The persons depositing shall supply suitable blocks for advertising marks so deposited, and the marks shall forthwith be advertised.

Numbers of Pura-

graphs in the Provisional Regula- tions of August 1904, that agree more or less with

the new numbering herein.

1

1

Names of persons, firms and of Companies shall be protected without registration, whether they form part of a trade-mark or whether they do not. Names of firms include Hong names.

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