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Counter-Draft Convention for Mutual Protection of British and Japanese Inventions, Designs, and Trade-Marks in China.
HIS Majesty the King of Great Britain, &c., and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, being desirous to secure in China reciprocal protection for the inventions, designs, and trade-marks of their respective subjects, have resolved to conclude a Convention for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to Say, &c.
ARTICLE 1.
Inventions, designs, and trade-marks duly patented or registered by the subjects of one High Contracting Party in the appropriate office of the other Contracting Party shall enjoy in all parts of China the same protection against infringement or misuse by the subjects of such other Contracting Party as in the country where patented or registered, and consequently, in case of such infringement or misuse, the aggrieved party shall have, in the competent courts of such other Contracting Party, the same rights and remedies as the subjects of such other Contracting Party without being compelled to submit to any other or
more onerous conditions than such subjects.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph regarding the rights and remedies of aggrieved parties in cases of infringements of designs and trade-marks shall extend to cases of misuse in the application to goods of any figures, words, or marks, or arrangements or combination thereof, whether including a trade-mark or not, which are reasonably calculated to lead persons to believe that the goods are the manufacture or merchan- whose dise of some other person than the person merchandise or manufacture they really are.
ARTICLE 2.
Each High Contracting Party engages to extend to the subjects of the other Contracting Party the same treatment in China in the matter
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