United Protest to Consular Body by All the Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Shanghai: Obnoxious' Points in Law Tellingly Exposed The following letter addressed by all the Chambers of Commerce of Shanghai to the Consular Body has been sent us for publication. It sels out most tellingly the objections to the Chinete Trademark Lay, the most obnoxious features of which are appended.
Mar. 7, 1024.
Simj—The Chambers whi ames appear at the foch of this letter, being apprehensive of the consequences likely to ensue from recognition of the proposed hires Tmilemark Law in ite!
you and your colleagues on the Brotent form, desire to day before Consular "Body, the following considerations regarding the law.
Their main cause of anxiety is not merely the fact that the Law wakes no provision for foreign participation in the administration Of the Burea but the further fact that, in ease of dispute with the Bureau as to whether a trademark: is registrable or not, articles 20 to 36 provide only for appeal to purely Chinaso bodies, namely, in the first instance to three trademark judges, who are to be appointed by the Bureau, next to the Ministry of - Agriculture and Commeren and finally ta the Administrative Court.
ho articles in question are enclosed as an appendix to this letter.
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