§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If Her Majesty's representatives at the recent Industrial Convention at Rome have presented their Report, and if the delegates of other Nations assented to the suggestions of the Master Cutler and the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Sheffield to restrain the fraudulent placing on Foreign-made goods of British trade marks or the names of British places or firms?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. BRYCE) (Aberdeen, S.)The British delegates to the Industrial Property Conference at Rome have not yet presented their Report; but a final Protocol was signed on the 11th instant, by all the delegates, submitting the proposals of the Conference to their respective Governments, with whom the decision as to the acceptance of these proposals now rests. Among the proposals is an additional Article to the Convention of 1883, designed to restrain the fraudulent use of false indication of origin of goods. This Article was proposed by the British delegates in accordance with instructions suggested by the Board of Trade. Papers on the subject will shortly be laid before Parliament.