CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2] — Page 17

CONFIDENTIA L.

Sir,

Displicate

CO 3502

15

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 3rd. January, 1912.

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3.0.33939/1

Enclosure!..

With reference to your Confidential Despatch

of the 27th. of last October, I have the honour to forward the enclosed copy of a minute by Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, Registrar of Trade Marks, dated the 12th. ultimo.

2.

I suggested to Mr. Fletcher that he should expand the last three lines of his minute to meet the contention that, although property in a trade mark is conferred by law in Japan there is no obvious reason why the terms of a treaty entered into by Great Britain and Japan for the mutual protect- -ion of trade marks in China should not deprive the Japanese subjects who use British trade marks in China from the benefit of the legal recognition of the same mark which is accorded to them in Japan itself. In reply Mr. Fletcher wrote a further minute dated the 19th. ultimo of which I enclose a copy.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Enclosure 2.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, H.P..

&C..

&c.,

&C...

Your most obedient,

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humble servant,

Governor,&c..