Time Limit Set by Nankiny Payments to Be Made Again The announcement by Nanking, which we published last Friday, that the time-limit set for fresh registration of trade marks already: registered with the Peking Bureau of, Trade Marks expires on October 18, that is, only three days hence, caused grave uneasiness among merchants, So far back as in August, 1927, the Nationalist Government gave an intimation of what must have been in its mind by opening a trade marks bureau in the French Concession; but} at that time it was not generally] supposed that Nanking intended more than to give expression to its proclaimed repudiation of all that Peking did. Inthe spring of this year, however, a new Trade Marks law was announced by Nanking to! becime operative on June 19. This was ultimately extended to August Heavy Payments Alreat On July 14 last a notice appeared but apparently not not only all trade marks registered with Pekin ut those registered in the Nankii Bureau (presumably would have to be registered afresh and all fees paid again for them, Considering that firms that lid a large number of marks to register even more, to Peking for res only within the previous 12 months there was an immediate uproar. Foreign Consulates protested strongly against the injustice of the step, especially as all the Peking records, with the possession of the capital, had come into the Nationalists' hands. The advice given to British merchants by the Consulate was that they should support the protest made] by their official representatives, by not registering.—Americans and other nationals were given similar Since August 18 the matter has remained in an inconclusive stage. One interesting piece of information that the records in the Peking Trade Marks Bureau are in such a state that rib one can make head or tail of the merchants have paid for re and have never received ficates. This might be ground of reregistration and payment of nominal fee, say a dollar a mark; to this we believe merchants would not object. But the notice of the time limit for registering and full payments anew to expire next Thursday)
a bombshell.
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