894.542/7–1348

The Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas ( Saltzman ) to the United States Representative on the Far Eastern Commission ( McCoy )

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This will advise you that SANACC 369/1 dated 22 March 1948, “Treatment of Japanese Domestic and Foreign Patents” (copy enclosed), represents the United States Government position with respect [Page 991] to this subject. It has further been agreed that C1–284/3, “Policy Towards Patents and Utility Models in Japan”, 14 April 1948, and Cl–311, “Recommendations Regarding Japanese-Owned Patents, Utility Models and Designs in Territories of Members of the United Nations”, 18 June 1948, are based on and consistent with the above mentioned SANACC paper.1

You are, therefore, authorized to agree in the Far Eastern Commission to Cl–284/3 and Cl–311 and to press for the adoption of the position presented in these papers for the Far Eastern Commission. In advising the Far Eastern Commission of the United States agreement you should express the hope that the countries concerned will not administer this policy in a manner which will impede the flow of goods in international trade nor prevent the importation of articles manufactured in Japan under the patents subject to this policy.2

Charles E. Saltzman
  1. None printed.
  2. On the same day the Secretary of the Army was informed of the Department’s concurrence that the substance of the mentioned proposals be transmitted to SCAP “as an agreed United States position.”