The international Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property does not provide that absolute reciprocity should be given by the contracting countries, as regards the manner in which such property is protected in the various countries; but each country, which is a party to the Convention, undertakes to protect industrial property and give the same protection to the nationals of the other contracting countries as is afforded to its own nationals. The Board of Trade are aware that the privileges accorded in some countries are not as great as in others, and the question is one which will no doubt be raised at the next periodical International Conference for the revision of the Industrial Property Convention.