CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 28

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As regards paragraph 3 of Sir F.H.May's letter

I am unable, personally, to see any real objection to

the sale of Trade Marks of enemy firme now in liquida- tion. Apparently the Licence to trade of such firmą has been revoked, and where there is a liquidation of firm property it has always been permissible to sell the Trade Marks. There is no question here of con- fiscation, and the business of the firm itself might well be carried on - and properly so by English sub-

jects. Whether, of course, such business could be

the circumstances of the case interalia upar properly carried on depends upon all their power and capacity to produce or sell the actual goods upon which

the Trade Mark had hitherto been placed.

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As regards paragraph 4 of the letter it is by

no means clear from the letter what Sir F.H May means

by "non-enemy person and firms formerly interested in

the sale of goods under Trade Marks registered in enemy

names". This might mean for example (a) that English

shippers of German goods had been in the habit of

affixing to them the German Trade Mark in England, or

in Hong Kong; the goods themselves being recognised as

German, or (b) it might also mean that a German firm has employed English firms in Manchester or Bradford to manufacture goods, and had affixed its own (that is, the German) Trade Mark upon such goods in Hong Kong; had even allowed the English manufacturers to affix the

German Trade Mark to the goods in England.

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There also may be other "interests" which do not immediately occur to me. As regards the two interests

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