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CHINA TRADE,

CONFIDENTIAL.

[29146]

No. 1.

[September 12.]

SECTION 5.

Sir,

Foreign Office to Board of Trade.

Foreign Office, September 12, 1907. ON the receipt of your letter of the 21st March last, a despatch, copy of which is inclosed," was addressed to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Tokió, instructing him to make a representation to the Japanese Government on the subject of the piracy for use in China of the "Crocodile" mark of Sir Elkanah Armitage and Sons (Limited) by a Japanese merchant in Osaka.

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herowith a copy of a despatch from Sir C. MacDonald, reporting that under the law in Japan it is impossible to render the pirated mark invalid, in view of the fact that it has been registered in Japan more than three years without any protest having been raised against such registration.

The Board will observe that Viscount Hayashi has not returned any answer to Mr. Lowther's suggestion that the Japanese law should be amended on the lines laid down in your letter of the 20th March last.

With regard to the question of the publication of registrations effected, a Memorandum by Mr. Harrington, of His Majesty's Embassy, is inclosed, making various suggestions for the improvement of the trade-mark law in Japan.

Sir C. MacDonald proposed to call Viscount Hayashi's attention again to both the points referred to above on his return to Tôkið.

I am to inquire what action the Board would wish taken in regard to the points raised in Sir C. MacDonald's despatch, and to invite their observations more especially on the suggestions put forward by Mr. Harrington for the improvement of the trade- mark law in Japan.

I am, &c.

(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.

*To Mr. Lowther, No. 66, March 80, 1907.

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↑ Sir C. MacDonald, No. 167, August 1, 1907.

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