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In any further communica-

tion on this subject, please quote

No. 8687/12.

and address--

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

London.

Sir:-

RECO

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8273

RegE 19 MAR

FOREIGN OFFICE-

March 18, 1912.

fil. HeacDonald'

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With reference to the letter from this Department of

the 29th. December last on the subject of the refusal of the

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Japanese Patent Bureau to register the "Quaisin" and "Farmer

Boy" marks of the British Cigarette Company of Hongkong I am

directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you here-

with a copy of a Despatch and enclosures which have been

bilish American

received from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo, together

with a letter which has been addressed to the British

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American Tobacco Company on the subject.

Sir E. Grey is of the opinion that, although the ex-

planation of their attitude offered by the Japanese Patent

Bureau is far from satisfactory, and entirely evades the real

point at issue, there would be no advantage in pressing the

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application of the British Cigarette Company in respect of

the marks in question which have now been registered by the

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

British

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