S J G /B G N,
J. D. Jones, Esq.,
Intertek Development Limited,
Suite 1600,
11 King Street West,
Toronto 1,
Ontario,
CANArA.
D:-2,,r Mr. Jcr-s,
18 th December, 1968.
'We have now finished our examination of the
Bell/Laing
cigarette. I enclose two copies of our report for
your retentic'm but
I wculd like. your assurance that our link with
this work wiU be kept
confidential, and that the results in the report
will not be published
In any way w!thcut our permission. '%N'e have no
objection to you
usina these results in confidential disclosures
which preserve for
us these two con--1.1tions.
We have no wish tc go any further with this patent
in the
direction of comm3rcial cigarettes and consider it
unlikely that any
substant;al manufacturer would find the laboratory
results sufficiently
encouraging to do so. Nevertheless, you may wish
to approach other
manufacturers and in accor-lance with our
agrepment you are, of
cours-3, auitn: frne to do so.
NVhen yc-u have giv,-n th's matter sor-P thought
and if you
come to the same view as ours we might be prepared
to consider
salvaging something in the sense that it may
possibly be of int,-zrast
to us to slot the Bell/Laing patent into our own
patent structure.
Obviously, this Is merely an Insurance and there
would be little
money involver' but at least pcrha-.s the
Inventors would not ba out
of pocket.
With kind regards,
Encl:
Yours sincerely,
S. J. GRI~EN.
CD
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BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 5
November 1999