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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[15709]
No. 1.
[May 13.]
SECTION 2.
Memorandum communicated to M. Cambon, May 13, 1907.
WITH reference to the Memorandum communicated by M. Cambon on the 2nd instant, the position in regard to the question of the protection of trade-marks in China as far as Great Britain is concerned stands as follows:
His Majesty's Government have heard nothing of any intention on the part of the Chinese Government to propose for official acceptance by the Treaty Powers their draft Regulations of October 1906, but His Majesty's Minister at Peking has already been instructed to ignore them and to proceed with the negotiations on the basis of the draft communicated to the Chinese Government by the Foreign Representatives in 1905, which, as M. Cambon observes, contain adequate provision for the protection of trade names, including "hong" names.
Further instructions in the sense desired by M. Cambon would therefore appear
unnecessary.
Attention is, however, invited to the fact that, even if the draft of 1905 is accepted by the Chinese Government and promulgated in China, these Regulations will only, as matters stand, afford redress against Chinese subjects who counterfeit trade-marks. It will be necessary, in order to prevent piracy by Japanese subjects in China for the Japanese Government to provide a remedy against such piracy in the Japanese Courts in China and the question of endeavouring to come to an agreement with the Japanese Government on the subject is under consideration.
Foreign Office, May 13, 1907.
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