British Inventions, Russia (Patent Protection)

HC Deb 05 December 1944 vol 406 cc341-2

32. Sir Waldron Smithers

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, since the U.S.S.R. is not a signatory of the Berne Convention, he will take steps to ensure patent protection of the specifications of British goods sent to the U.S.S.R., or advertised or described in official Russian technical journals.

Mr. Dalton

Patent protection in the U.S.S.R. for British or other inventions is afforded by Soviet law.

Sir W. Smithers

Will the right hon. Gentleman remember that he is the President of the Board of Trade for Great Britain, and stand up for the rights of British traders?

Mr. Dalton

Yes, Sir, but no representations have reached me that any British trader is suffering in regard to this matter.