TRADE MARKS BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 6

TRADE MARKS BILL.

AMENDMENT MEASURE.

BRINGING LAW UP TO DATE

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Containing 73 clauses, chiefly of a technical nature, the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Amendment Bill was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday by Governor-General's Message, read a second time pro forma, and, at the intttigation of the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Mason, was referred to the Statutes Revision Committee. The principal provision of the bill facilitates the formation in New Zealand of New Zealand companies to operate under trade marks, patents and designs which aro the property of parent companies in England, and the Attorney-General explained in an interview that it waa this particular provision that was chiefly responsible for the introduction of the measure at this stage of the session. It was felt that it would be awkward to introduce this amendment, for which there was an urgent need, without applying the intervening amendments which had been brought in in the English law. The bill brought the law up to date. It incorporated the same procedure and the same expression as the English law, and it was deemed expedient, said Mr. Mason, to introduce those amendments that had appeared in England.