marks any protection.
B. The principle which the china Association and 169 Chamber of Commerce contend for is that the rights of sritish / Japanese merchants to marks in China should be decided according to priority of user in China, and it is subaitted that thie lo the correct principle to aim at.
6. I submit the following criticiens on the
Board of Trade" of
corr.spondence.
the Counter-droft Convention attached to the weere
secretary of despatch of 6th vetober 1909 at the end of the
ARLAULE A The proviso is useless, as if the designs or combina-
tions are registered they are protected by the win Article: ir
not registered the main article cannot be applied to them.
ARTIUM III, is not necessary, as Articles 1 à il refer to the
subjects of the High Contracting Party, a phrase which includes the *ubj.ete of K....belonging to Lolonies eto" referred to in
Article 41.
ARTAME IV is unintelligible what rights can grow out of the Convention which require recognition in Hongkong & other writish (possessions? The Convention refers to protection in China only: the L. of Hongkong already provecte in Hongrong Japenese marke registered in Hongkong, & to a cortain extent Japanese marke re- gistered either in England or Japan if applied to goods origina- ting in those countries pespectively. I do not see how the law of longkong can protect Japanese marks in China. I therefore cannot understand what amendment of the law the Secretary of stato has in
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by the China Association and Chamber of Commerce I think it would jbe butter to omit articlew II & IV altogether; &, I think, that,
if the
tter be again referred to those bodies they will oppose the extension to sion kong of the Convention as drafted.
A. the argumente in the letter of the Chinn Association jol the oth a gust, 1:00 against the first draft convention app.or
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