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BOARD OF TRADE,

(Commercial Department)

GWYDYR HOUSE,

WHITEHALL,

LONDON, S.W.

19th December, 1911.

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Sir:-

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter of 25th November (No.45341)

with its enclosures, on the subject of the refusal of

the Japanese Patent Bureau to register a certain trade

mark.

In reply, I am to say that while the letter ad-

dressed to the British Cigarette Company by their agent

in Japan is not clear, it seems probable that the at-

titude of the Japanese Patent Bureau in refusing to ac-

cept an application from the Company for the registra-

tion of a Trade Mark was based, not on the fact that

Hongkong is debarred from participation in any Trade

Mark privileges conferred by the Anglo-Japanese Treaty

(for as Sir E. Grey observes this Treaty makes no re-

ference to Trade Marks) but on the fact that in virtue

of Article 15 of that Treaty no Company registered in a

non-adhering

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.