§ 134. Mr. Swinglerasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give details of the countries and industries concerned in the 330 cases of alleged malpractices in the employment of merchandise marks or copying of designs which his Department has taken up since 1952.
§ Mr. H. StraussThe 330 cases mentioned in my answer to the hon. Member on 7th July referred to complaints regarding merchandise marks and not copying of designs. They were mostly not cases of alleged malpractice but cases where a mark which resembled an existing mark on goods of British origin had been registered, often innocently, in a foreign country. A detailed analysis of these cases could not be given without a great deal of work, and perhaps the hon. Member will inform me of any particular aspects in which he is interested.