One of the most important questions which has been consider-by your Committee during the past year is that concerning the reistration of Trade Marks. The Trade Marks Bureau at Peking is] the only one recognized by. the Foreign Powers. The Municipality of Greater Shanghai some time ago opened a Trade Marks Bureau, Which was the forerunner of an other burouu recoatly established by the Nanking Government. This Government issued a statement that unless registration were made at this Bureau, protection locally ould not be guaranteed. Protesta against this Bureau were made by most ut the National Chambers, and fat the present time the matter is being dealt with by the Consular} Body. "Needless to say your Committee, though not in a position to prevent registration by individual firms, strongly advises local merchants not to register at the] new Bureau. To do so would but tend to negative whatever action being, or may be taken by the Consular Body effectively to deal with an institution which cannot have] any legal standing, and which, therefore, cannot give that complete protection which is so necess-
In this connection I would recall your attention to the "Revised ar-tangoment for the Provisional Registration of Patents by Fo fers" made by the Peking Government.
The British attitude is neither to encourage nor discourage registration, which, when made, appears to amount to little more than, and to! bbe a natural sequence to, the previous Customs provisional filing of trade marks. The attitude of other nationals appears, from registration figures available, to be one of indifference. Such in brief is the history of the regulations down to the present time.
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