§ MR. LOCKWOOD (York)asked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether, in view of three Judges having respectively decided that words divorced from their dictionary meaning become "fancy" words, entitled to be registered under "The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883 "(46 and 47 Vic. c. 57), he will give to the Comptroller and other officials at the Patent Office instructions that the above-mentioned decisions be duly carried out?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE BOABD (Baron HENRY DE WORMS) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)Having regard to the desirability of obtaining an authoritative decision on the subject of the registration of dictionary words as trade marks, the Board of Trade have determined to present an appeal in the case recently decided. Meanwhile, the Comptroller will not refuse to register any word which has no connection with locality and cannot possibly be a word of description.