§ 11. Mr. OSWALD LEWISasked the President of the Board of Trade when His Majesty's Government propose to introduce a Bill for the purpose of giving effect to the recommendations made in the report, dated the 20th April, 1934, by the Departmental Committee on the Law and Practice relating to Trade Marks appointed by the Board of Trade in January, 1933, having in view that the commercial and industrial interests concerned represented to the committee that some of the legislative changes recommended in the report were matters of importance and urgency, and that the committee in its report accepted these representations as well-founded?
§ Dr. BURGINI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave on the 10th April to the hon. Member for Wirral (Sir C. Clayton).
§ Mr. LEWISIs the hon. Gentleman aware that as the law stands at present dishonest traders can with impunity make indirect use of trade marks which are not their own property, and does he realise that a reform of the law in that respect is an urgent matter?
§ Dr. BURGINThat is a rather general statement, but on the 10th April the answer given was that preparatory work for the necessary legislation is in hand, so that my hon. Friend's point is covered.