§ MR. STUART-WORTLEY (Sheffield, Hallam)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether since the presentation of the last Papers relating to the conference on the protection of industrial property, there have been received any further ratifications if the first of the projects adopted at Madrid in 1890, directed specially against the use of false trade descriptions?
§ SIR E. GREYProtocol No. 1 of the Madrid Conference of 1890 is that which relates to the repression of false indications of origin. The Powers which up to the present moment have ratified this Protocol are Great Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland, Tunis (see Parliamentary Paper, Treaty Series, No. 13 of 1892) and Portugal (see Parliamentary Paper, Treaty Series, No. 16 of 1893).
§ MR. STUART-WORTLEYI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is any reason to hope that the German Empire will adhere to the Conventions of the International Union for the protection of industrial property and the repression of false trade descriptions, and ratify any of the subsidiary Conventions adopted at Madrid in 1890, and be represented at future Conferences?
§ SIR E. GREYSo far as Her Majesty's Government are aware, no indication has been given of any such intention on the part of the German Government.