Aside, then, from the diplomatic questions involved, registration with a bureau organized by a municipal government is inexpedient, wasteful in expenditure for registration fox and affords none of the protections suded when trade marks are gistered. The question is asked: Must one register with municipal governments throughout the country? This naturally involves the problem of confused registrations, conflicting registrations, where out municipal bureau registers the trade marks as a benefit to.one company and another nnnicipality registers it for someone else.
The Nanking Government is now organizing a Ministry of Commerce and Industry of which it is assumed that Dr. H. H. Kung will be the Minister. Dr.' Kung has not yet assumed office, but it is believed that he will shortly go to Nanking for this purpose. The Trade Mark Bureau will come under the jurisdic tion of his Ministry, while municipal trade mark bureaux will be abolished or taken over. Last summer, when Mr. Sun Fo was Minister of mance, the question of the author-of the Shanghai municipal tral ark bureau came before him, cause there was no Ministry of Commerce and Industry to consider it. He apparently authorized the manicipal bureau to act im You of 'a national organization, but it is more than doubtful whether this will continue when once a Ministry Industry
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