To the Editor of the NontH-Cuina Datty News."
Sit,—I am instructed to call your attention to the misrepresentation in connexion with an article appearing "in an issue of the "North China Daily News" published June 19, 1928 under the caption "Nanking's Trade Mark Law."
Tu the article in question there are contained the following paragraphs:
"Some time last year, a bureau of the Shanghai Chinese Municiality decided that it should register trade marks, because there was no other agency in the Nationalist Government to undertake this work, There was immediate criticism, first, because the registration of trade marks 18 a national and not a municipal function; and secondly, firms had gone to enormous expense to register with the Trade Mark Bureau in Peking and no logical explanation was. offered to why they should duplicate the expenditure, Firms were re-Tuctant to register and were not advised by their Consular officers to do 50.
"Recently when the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Nationals Goverament wan ized, it was assumed that the Municipal effec, which had. undertaken its functions, would be closed. But apparently Mayor Chang Ting-fang was sufficiently influential to prevent the breaking of rice-bowls and this office continued. Now apparently, has become a joint enterprise under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Shanghai Municip 1 am instructed to point out that our Bureau of Agriculture, Labour and Commerce never required the registration of trade marks as alleged and that it only undertook the registration of business firms. and enterprises by virtue of the authority vested in it by the Nationalist Government. If firms in applying for registration should at the same time submit their trade marks to the Bureau, then such trade marks would only' be recorded together ith any other particulars that lit be submitted by the appl cants. It is obvious, however, that no registration of trade marks as commonly understood could be imied from such a process, Furthermore, with the inauguration of the National Registration Bureau under the auspices of the ry of Finance of the Nationalist Government, our Bureau of Agriculture, Labour and Commerce immediately transferred to it all matters appertenent to the re tration of business firms and enterprises which have since been attend~ ed to solely by the National Re tration Bureau.
Tam, ate, Vu Huxa-cuvy.
Municipality of Greater Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.