Overview

The Community Trade Mark Regulation came into force in March 1994, and the first CTM applcations will be accepted from 1st January 1996. By filing one application, a trade mark owner may obtain a single registration effective throughout the whole of the EC, and for the first time it will be possible to gain truly international protection for intellectual property rights. Trade mark practitioners world-wide will require in-depth knowledge of the system in order to advise their clients how best to benefit from the Community Trade Mark. The Madrid Protocol comes into effect on 1st April 1996, providing a procedural shortcut to the multiple filing of national trade mark applications. The Protocol will eventually dovetail into the CTM system. This guide aims to help the practitioner to evaluate whether the CTM or the Madrid Protocol or both will best meet the commercial client's aims.

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Author:   Ruth Annand (Head, Department of Professional Legal Studies and Director of the Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Bristol) ,  Helen Norman (Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Blackstone Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.529kg
ISBN:  

9781854315809

ISBN 10:   1854315803
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   01 January 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Community trade mark; obtaining registration of a Community trade mark 1 - the basic conditions; obtaining registration of a Community trade mark 2 - registration procedure; features of the Community trade mark system; maintaining and losing a Community trade mark; infringement 1 - rights in a Community trade mark; infringement 2 - limitations, counterclaims and jurisdictions; appeals; transactions in a Community trade mark; the Madrid system; Community collective marks. Appendices: list of contracting parties to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883); list of members of the World Trade Organization; list of contracting parties to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1891); list of contracting parties to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1989); Community trade mark application form; notice of opposition to a CTM; Madrid Protocol application form MM2;

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`This is a very informative guide to a relatively new area of international trademark law.' Trademark Reporter

This is a very informative guide to a relatively new area of international trademark law. Trademark Reporter

`This is a very informative guide to a relatively new area of international trademark law.' Trademark Reporter

Author Information

Professor Ruth Annand is Director of the Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice at the University of Bristol. She is an Associate with Humphreys & Co., Solicitors, Bristol and co-chair of the International Trademark Associations Sub-Committee on the Community Trade Mark. Helen Norman is a barrister and Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol and a Consultant in European and Intellectual Property Law to the Solicitors Information Group. Ruth Annand and Helen Norman are co-authors of Blackstones Guide to the Trade Mark Act 1994.

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