Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington , April 17, 1905 .

No. 4.]

Sir: I inclose herewith copy of a correspondence between the British ambassador and the Department^a looking to an arrangement whereby consular courts of the United States in China may protect British subjects against the infringement by American citizens in China of such of their trade-marks as have been duly registered in the United States, and the British consular courts may afford like protection to American citizens against the infringement by British subjects of such of their trade-marks as have been duty registered in Great Britain.

The correspondence shows that the agreement is to be effected by an exchange of notes, as was done in the case of the reciprocal protection of trade-marks in Morocco, and that the British minister at Peking has been instructed in the matter.

I inclose a print of the Morocco notes,^b and authorize you to effect an exchange of like notes with the British minister at Peking with regard to the reciprocal protection of trade-marks in China.

I am, etc.,

Francis B. Loomis.

1. Not printed.
2. Printed in Foreign Relations, 1904, pp. 407–409.