THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



'ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1922, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XX 



AUGUST, 1922 



Number 9 



Cuban Government Matters 



Secretary of Public Works 



The Secretary of Public Works, Capt. 

 Castillo Pokorny, is the son of Gen. Cas- 

 tillo Duany. His mother is an American 

 of Polish extraction, as her surname indi- 

 cates. 



Capt. Castillo Pokorny was born in San- 

 tiago de Cuba and was educated at West 

 Point. Aide de Camp of Gen. Crowder 

 during his mission in Cuba, he has been in 

 close touch with the General and has given 

 proofs of liberal views and staunch patriot- 

 ism. He was married recently to Miss Lola 

 Montalvo, daughter of the former presiden- 

 tial candidate for office. 



Secretary of Sanitation and Charities Dr. 

 Aristides Agramonte, the new Secretary of 

 the Sanitary Department, is a Cuban, 

 descendant of patriotic forebears. He was 

 educated in the United States and took his 

 degree in New York. A member of the 

 Spanish United War Veterans, Camp No. 1, 

 Havana, he saw service during the Spanish- 

 American War. Dr. Agramonte has many 

 friends among Americans in Cuba, as well 

 as abroad. 



Trade-Marks 



A proposal for more strict and equitable 

 punishment of infringements of trade-mark 

 rights, particularly in the improper use of 

 branded receptacles, is embodied in a bill 

 introduced in the Cuban Senate. Tech- 



nically, it provides for modifications of 

 Article 287 of the Penal Code and Article 

 XII of the Trade-Mark Law of August 

 21. 1884. 



The proposed revision of Article 287 of 

 the Penal Code provides that the maximum 

 punishment shall be imposed only upon 

 those who deliberately use receptacles, 

 stamped with a trade-mark registered in 

 the name of another person, in connection 

 with the marketing of the same or similar 

 goods. A slighter penalty is imposed on 

 those who make such illegal use of a trade- 

 mark in selling dissimilar merchandise. 

 Persons who merely sell the receptacles for 

 use in unfair competition are subject only 

 to forfeiture of such articles to the party 

 defrauded. Hitherto, the same penalty was 

 incurred under Article 287 by all those 

 who either sold or bought receptacles 

 stamped illegally with the trade-mark of 

 another person, and no provision was made 

 to punish those who traded on the good 

 will of another although they sold goods 

 of a different category. 



A noteworthy change in the proposed 

 revision of Article XII of the Trade-Mark 

 Law is the subjection of those who coun- 

 terfeit or imitate a trade-mark, together 

 with those who make commercial use of 

 such mark, to criminal prosecution. This 

 alteration brings Article XII into closer 

 agreement with Article 287 of the Penal 

 Code. 



