LibGuides: Law 797-J: International Intellectual Property: Trademarks

Trademarks

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Treaties & Conventions

World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO Trademark Treaties
This site features major international trademark treaties and explanatory material. The Paris Convention “adopted in 1883, applies to industrial property in the widest sense, including patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, service marks, trade names, geographical indications and the repression of unfair competition.”
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
The Paris Convention, “adopted in 1883, applies to industrial property in the widest sense, including patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models, service marks, trade names, geographical indications and the repression of unfair competition.”
Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
The Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks is governed by the Madrid Agreement, concluded in 1891, and the Protocol relating to that Agreement, concluded in 1989. The system makes it possible to protect a mark in a large number of countries by obtaining an international registration that has effect in each of the designated Contracting Parties.
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
The Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks is governed by the Madrid Agreement, concluded in 1891, and the Protocol relating to that Agreement, concluded in 1989. The system makes it possible to protect a mark in a large number of countries by obtaining an international registration that has effect in each of the designated Contracting Parties.
Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods
According to the Madrid Agreement, all goods bearing a false or deceptive indication of source, by which one of the Contracting States, or a place situated therein, is directly or indirectly indicated as being the country or place of origin, must be seized on importation, or such importation must be prohibited, or other actions and sanctions must be applied in connection with such importation.
WIPO - Trademark Law Treaty
The aim of the Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) is to standardize and streamline national and regional trademark registration procedures. This is achieved through the simplification and harmonization of certain features of those procedures, thus making trademark applications and the administration of trademark registrations in multiple jurisdictions less complex and more predictable.
WIPO - Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
The objective of the Singapore Treaty is to create a modern and dynamic international framework for the harmonization of administrative trademark registration procedures. Building on the Trademark Law Treaty of 1994 (TLT), the Singapore Treaty has a wider scope of application and addresses more recent developments in the field of communication technologies.
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
The Nice Agreement establishes a classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks and service marks (the Nice Classification). The trademark offices of Contracting States must indicate, in official documents and publications in connection with each registration, the numbers of the classes of the Classification to which the goods or services for which the mark is registered belong.

Treaties & Conventions - CLASSIFICATION

Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
The Locarno Agreement establishes a classification for industrial designs (the Locarno Classification). The competent offices of the Contracting States must indicate in official documents reflecting the deposit or registration of industrial designs the numbers of the classes and subclasses of the Classification to which the goods incorporating the designs belong. This must also be done in any publication the offices issue in respect of the deposit or registration of industrial designs.
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
The Nice Agreement establishes a classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks and service marks (the Nice Classification). The trademark offices of Contracting States must indicate, in official documents and publications in connection with each registration, the numbers of the classes of the Classification to which the goods or services for which the mark is registered belong.
Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks
The Vienna Agreement establishes a classification (the Vienna Classification) for marks that consist of, or contain, figurative elements. The competent offices of Contracting States must indicate in official documents and publications relating to registrations and renewals of marks the numbers of the categories, divisions and sections of the Classification to which the figurative elements of those marks belong.

Databases, Multi-volume Works & Websites

Trademarks Throughout the World

Available on Westlaw

A classic work that provides practical summaries of the trademark laws and regulations of over 180 countries and jurisdictions. Authored by trademark practitioners in the particular nations covered, and other global trademark experts

Including a sub-chapter on language issues.

World Trademark Law and Practice

Available on Lexis

Acomplete guide to world trademark law and practice, with detailed coverage of 35 major jurisdictions and summary coverage of another 100.

Right to protection against use of trademark or tradename beyond the territory in which plaintiff operates

ALR -Available on Westlaw.

Books

Trade Marks and Free Trade by Lazaros G. Grigoriadis
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9783319047959
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
This book is the first study to examine the issue of the legality of parallel imports of trademarked goods under the most important legal systems on an international level, namely under GATT/WTO law, EU law and the laws of the ten major trading partners of the European Union.
Protection of Geographic Names in International Law and Domain Name System Policy by Heather Ann Forrest
Call Number: K1569 .F67 2013
ISBN: 9789041146823
Publication Date: 2013-04-26
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body charged with operational and policy authority over the Domain Name System (DNS), is developing a set of criteria to expand the internet community's power to name and design its own