IMPORTANT TO EXPORTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8031, 18 January 1906, Page 2

IMPORTANT TO EXPORTERS.

IiKGISTIiATIOX OF T'lUDli M'AKKiS. I'KIl MUSS ASSOCIATION. Wem.ixotox, January 17. A despatch has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, pointing out that British and Colonial traders may be placed at a great disadvanagc owing to the provisions of the trade marks law in the Argentine Republic, and the exporters of goods will do well to lose no time m securing the registration of their marks in (hut country, according (o the laws of the Itepuhlic. A person not necessarily being the real owner of a particular trade mark, but having registered that mark in the Argentine, can lay an embargo on any goods he can lind bearing that mark, although such goods may have been made by the original owner of Ihem.u'k, and have been leitinialely introduced into the country as stated. A Canadian tirm which has been trading for sonic years under a special m irk now finds it may not import its own goods into the Argentine under that mark, because it lias been registered by a linn of importers in Buenos Avi'es, and no remedy appears to exist for the original owners except to buy up the local registered owners ( or invent and push another mark,