The Archive · 1936

Unnecessary and Unpractical

Take, for instance, the case of chemicals or medicines. Hundreds of different. chemicals" and medicines may be sold under one trade marie, To. record these products on trade mark certificates, and to keep this Fecord up to date by continual additions and/or deletions, is as unnecessary as it is unpractical. Now, supposing "A" has a well-known trade mark: which he has registered for Wide range of chemicals or medicines, This range will be constantly in: creasing, as everyone acquainted with the trade knows. According to the Chinese Trade Mark Bureau, "BY can register "AM's mark for any chemical oF medicinal products for which "A" has not yet obtained protection, "A" may already. man facture the same products and. may have decided that the market Is not sufllciontly developed to warrant th Introduction of these particular p duets, bul, when he decides to In-{roduee them on the market, he finds that "BY has been granted the oxclusive use of his well-known mark, and that use of the marie by him on those particular products. would constitute' a criminal offence under Chinese fow In other words, although "BY may have" been thoroughly" quilly sharp practice, the Jaw judges "A" {fo be an offender. Such a position would be outrageous, and foreign courts having Jurisdiction in this, country she id take cognizance this situation,

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