Republican farmer., 1918-07-05
! PROTECTION OF MANUFACTURERS
 IN EXPORT TRADE
Mission From Cuba Coming To Confer With Business
 Men of United States.

Washington, June 29.-The coming visit of Dr. Mario Diaz Irizar, of Gu ba, to the United States for confer ence with business men and other of ficials of the Pan-American Trade mark Bureau. of which Dr. Irizar is director in North America. is expect ed to result in greatly furthering the protection of manufacturers who are endeavoring 10 increase their export trade in Latin-American countries.
 The matter of trade-marked articles in Latin-Am merican has caused great trouble to business men and has long offered a wide field for interruptions adventures and notably for Germans, some of whom have secured large amounts of money from American manufacturers by methods closely re- sembling blackmail. Patents and copyrights come under the same head and efforts are being made by the Pan-American Trademark Bureau to correct the evils that have grown up in pirating the good names of reliable manufa ctured articles.
 The purpose of the pirates is never to manufacture. according to William | C. Wells. c'''ef statistician of the Pan Arnaricon T-nfon E!...Ysass "They simply register the trade mark, be said today, land thereafter | control the selling of the article in the country in which they have regis tered it. That is all that is neces- eary under the laws of all the Latin 1 American countries.
 "The object of the Pan-Americar Trademark Bureau is to prevent this fraudulent registra tion. All the coun- 1 tries of both Americas are interested in the bureau which has branches 1T North and South America. The mo- dus operandi of the man who regis ters trademarks is simple. All he ha: to do is to find some article that is be ing advertised extensively in the Unit ed States and of which there Is z probability that it will be introduced in his country.
 "The registration fee is usuall! small and when the trickster ha! made his reSistra ton he sits back an6 waits for the hTsiness to come to him When the manufacturer comes to in troduce his article in that country ht finds that he has to deal with the mar who registered it. Sometimes he ha to pay g big royalty or a large lumI sum to he permitted to operate there
 "It is to correct this state of affair that the bureau was organized"
 It was pointed out by an official il Washington that United States manu facturers can easily ciFr-- invent tn
 trademark pirates by cZ7nging tn
 t .mark when hc # ready to in
 ,r,sduce the article in any countr,
 where it has been fraudulently reg
 istered.
 "But these manufacturers are loatl
 to do this" said the official. The
 think that tro trademark is the valu
 able thing about the article. The
 are also sentimental about it. As matter of fact the trademark Is fire
 uuentIy a drc whack instead of an ad vantage 'Engiish words used i trademarks are often unpronounce
 able in Spanish and the consumer ha ' to make known his wants by signs 0 . nicknamos If the manufacture would charge his trademark SO tha the I.&tin-American could pronounc it he would circumvent the pirate and popuIarize his article. And tn intrinsic value of the goods would es tal-iish the market for the manufac , turers.'