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'File 10/7 III Trade and Commerce. Registration of trademarks and protection of inventions in the Bahrain Island' [‎25r] (49/208)

The record is made up of 1 file (104 folios). It was created in 4 Mar 1945-1 Dec 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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PLliSIAh GULF HLSIDENC^,
BAliliAIN,
26th Jaruary, 1949.
(86 /8/49)
Dear Lepartmei t,
hererence your letter L 15£'S9/74/91 of the 10th
January on the subject of pfate- t protection ir Kuvalt
arci Bahrain, ^o far as ahralr is ccncernea, ¥,e rcrv^aro
heiev-lth a copy of t report vhlch was rr^de to the inula
Office In 1939. The question croppeu up in Kuvalt last
year as a result of a proposal to establish, a clgaietle
factory An East India Company trading post. at Kuwait (which Incidentally has j ov: been put into
effect) and under instructions from this hesi ency, the
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. suggested to the Shaikh that a system of
registration should be introduced similar to that followed
at Bahrain. The Shaikh replied that he considered triat
any such system woulu be superfluous ir Kuwait as there v.ere
no ranuiacturers there ana stated that he was roauj, to
discipline tne cigarette factory An East India Company trading post. if attempted to copy other
brards. fre are inclined to think that it is unlikely that
for the present any case of infringenient of patents or trade
marks will arise in the Gulf states anu that if one were
to arise it could probably be dealt with either under bectl r.
487 of the I.P.C or by executive action. If hovever you
cor.siuer that the position shoula be regularised the best
course will be for us to endeavour to persuade the Shaikhs
of Bahrain and Kuwait to issue their own laws regarding
patents and traue Piarks aid then to apply these laws by
frin^'s Begulatione to all persons subject to the trders-in-
courcil. If you wish this course to be followed, woulc you
kindly supply us nith a draft of a sifnple law o the sub^ec t
and of t ^ie reasons for its enactr ent. v' e will the: see i:' the
Sheikhs concerned can be persuaded to put it into force.
Yours ever,
Ki w:] ' - .
Eastern ijepartraent,
Foreign cffice,
London.

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Correspondence relating to trade marks (there was no registration of trade marks in Bahrain at this period, but foreign trade mark rights applied). The file includes examples of flower basket match labels imported from Czechoslovakia by Abdul Rahman Noor Alfarsi, Bahrain, that were similar to flower brand matches manufactured in Sweden and India, 1948, and correspondence from Lysaght and Company, Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Cairo, relating to the agreement by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain, to publish cautionary notices regarding trade marks in the goverment gazette and to post copies of those notices in English and Arabic (examples included) on the notice board of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , 1950. The file also includes papers relating to discussions over the proposed introduction of an ordinance dealing with the registration of trade marks in Bahrain, 1950.

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1 file (104 folios)
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: The foliation system in use appears in a circle in the top right hand corner of each folio. There is also a sequence (not circled) from 1-19, starting on folio 2.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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