HL Deb 24 November 1993 vol 550 c262

3.9 p.m.

Viscount Goschen

My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Strathclyde, I beg to introduce a Bill to make new provision for registered trade marks, implementing Council Directive No. 89/104/EEC of 21st December 1988 to approximate the laws of the member states relating to trademarks; to make provision in connection with the Council Regulation (EEC) on the Community trade mark; to give effect to the Madrid Protocol Relating to the International Registration of Trademarks of 27th June 1989, and to certain provisions of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 20th March 1883, as revised and amended; and for connected purposes. I beg to move that the Bill be now read a first time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time.—(Viscount Goschen.)

On Question, Bill read a first time, and to be printed.