"The Trade Mark Law furnishes the Nanking Government with a splendid opportunity of showing a broad outlook and good statesmanship which will be noted by hundreds of commercial houses all over the ment definitely assuming responibility for all trade marks gistered or filed for registration under the former Peking Law.
Merchants Advised Not to Register:
The "Journal" which is the official organ of thggAssociation of British Chambers of Commerce China and Hongkong, in its last issue, had the following to say in the course of an article regarding, the Nationalist' Trade Marks Peking Government, which wwe been, aware of the' declara-fof the Nationalists that. they occupy, Peking In June, was obviously" not in doubt as to the status, g¢rthe Peking Bureau when they issued That notice. The "Journal" does the situation, the! Sishes to" support Official discouragement. of registration St the New Bureau. to the present moment the Na-'Government has not indicated Whether of not it will carry on the Peking Bureau as it stands or transfer Nanking, regist providing protection throughout Ching whether' the Bureaa Peking. The Powers ready" recognized the Peking seems obvious that recogni= tion of any other bureau must be peril ant "upon. the recognition of the Nalidity of the registration effected at the Peking' Bureau, the hich must he adopted Bureae which may serail be means the old het support to such a course ba? teen given by the Diplomatic Holy asa whole and ky the Consular Holy here. Americans ani. other als are adopting a similar' course, though not concerned to the same extent as British firms.
In the circumstances, it is somewhat disheartening to find some owners of trade marks who are quite ready to surrender so early in the fight, even though they admit they may be losers by it. A hint of this has been given already a previous article, in which presentative of one of the big firms declared pessimistically that believed this argument would fail as did that of 1923, because the one and two mark firms, who could only lose perhaps $40 or 30, thought it was not worth worrying. about, and, in the long run, the greater number of these neutralize ed the efforts of the big firms who. had hundreds of marks and thousands of dollars at stake,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.