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February 18 IP: MAR 12,

Sir:

With reference to your despatch No.252(50985/11)

of the 22nd December last, instructing me to enquire of

the Japanese Government the reasons which had caused the

Patent Bureau to refuse to register the trademarks of

the British Cigarette Company registered at Hongkong,

I addressed a Note to Viscount Uchida, copy of which is

enclosed herewith.

In His Excellency's reply, copy of which I have

also the honour to enclose, no reference whatever is

made to the question of the inapplicability of the

Japanese Trade Marks Law to British firms domiciled or

registered in Hongkong on account of that Colony not

having adhered to the Treaty. The reasons for the re-

fusal to register are the ordinary ones of similarity to.

an already registered mark.

As it seemed that the marks referred to might be

different from those mentioned in your despatch, I in-

structed the Commercial Attaché to obtain copies of the

"Quaisin"

Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,

&c., &c., &c.