Download or read book Selected Instruments Relating to the Community Trade Mark written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Instruments Relating to the Community Trade Mark written by Office For The Harmonization Of The Internal Market Staff and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recopilaci n de Textos Relativos a la Marca Comunitaria written by Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) and published by European Communities. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Community Trade Mark (CTM) is a sign for identifying and distinguishing goods or services valid across the European Community. This updated third edition of the publication contains the texts of the Regulations regarding the CTM and other relevant Decisions and Communications. In addition, the Harmonisation Directive on the law of trade marks, and relevant provisions of the Paris Convention and the TRIPS agreement are included.
Download or read book Selected Instruments Relating to the Community Trade Mark written by European Union. Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Instruments Relating to the European Union Trade Mark written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade the EUIPO has been working intensively with national and regional IP offices in the EU in order to improve and harmonise tools and practices in the EU trade mark and design system. This effort has been complemented and reinforced by the legislative measures aimed at modernising and strengthening the trade mark system, making it more accessible and efficient and ensuring greater complementarity and closer cooperation between the offices within the two-tier system of national and EU rights. The 2016 and 2017 amendments to the EU legal instruments were quite extensive and have affected many of their provisions. Not only were the reformed regulations renumbered and consolidated, but also new instruments were created and the applicable rules were reorganised and redistributed among them. In order to make these changes more accessible to users the EUIPO has decided to launch a new edition of the monolingual version of the Selected instruments relating to the European Union trade mark, where all the changes have been incorporated. It contains the consolidated texts of the European Union trade mark regulation, the delegated regulation and the implementing regulation, as well as the most relevant Office decisions that complement them. Some texts which are no longer relevant have been omitted. In addition, the Directive approximating the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks and the most relevant provisions of the Paris Convention, the Madrid Protocol and the TRIPS Agreement on trade marks have been included. The combined impact of convergence and legislative change is intended to produce a system that caters better for the needs of businesses of all sizes, whether they are taking advantage of the single market to grow, or need a national registration. This updated edition of the monolingual version, sets out to make the texts more usable, easier accessible and more transparent, for the benefit of all professionals who need to apply EU trade mark law as part of their daily work, be they examiners, practitioners, judges, academics or businesses.
Download or read book Community Trade Mark Regulation and Related Texts Implementing Regulation Fees Regulation Rules of Procedure of Boards of Appeal Joint Statements Entered in the Council Minutes Decisions and Communications of the President of the Office written by Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected instruments relating to the community trade mark community trade mark regulation written by Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Design) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concise European Trade Mark Law written by Verena von Bomhard and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sweeping changes brought about in 2017 to practice and procedures in European Union trade mark law have precipitated a new edition of this much relied-upon guide to the field. This is the first book to provide comprehensive guidance to the new EU Trade Mark Regulation, including full details on all aspects of substance and procedure, as well as to the new Trade Mark Directive. This new and significantly expanded edition, which builds on the two previous editions of the Concise European Trade Mark and Design Law, includes the full texts of the new Implementing and Delegated Acts – available in no other book – as well as a collection of other texts that are needed in daily practice, such as excerpts from the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, the Paris Convention, the Madrid Protocol and the Nice Agreement, the Nice Classification, the TRIPS Agreement and the Directive on Enforcement of IP Rights. Providing a complete commentary and a full set of the legal provisions that must be dealt with on a daily basis, obviating recourse to other sources, this new edition will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in the law and practice of trade marks in the European Union.
Download or read book Trade Mark Law in Europe written by Ulrich Hildebrandt and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade mark law practitioners agree that Ulrich Hildebrandt’s Trade Mark Law in Europe hugely enhances their work. This fourth edition follows the same well-known, intensely practical, time-saving format, with each provision of current law (Directive 2015/2436) reproduced in its original English wording and annotated with relevant passages from all relevant decisions of the European Court of Justice, as well as relevant provisions of the Community Trade Mark Regulation and the national trade mark acts of all Member States implementing the Directive. The author’s expert commentary on each provision expressly marks major changes to previous versions of the Directive, highlights when case law concerning a previous version remains relevant and translates passages that lack an official English text. Among the fundamental questions addressed are the following: When is it possible to register a geographical indication as a trademark? Are colours and sounds capable of registration? When may the reputation of a mark be invoked to protect it? How mundane could a sign be and still claim to be distinctive? When can it be said that there has been no genuine use of a trade mark? Where does the Court’s function theory influence the trademark law? Given a topic or keyword, appendices assist in the quick finding of any provision of the Directive and relevant case law. There is no other resource presenting the original wording of ECJ case law, broken down by specific points of law and directly related on an article-by-article basis to EU and Member State trade mark legislation. As a highly organized presentation of key information, this is an ideal initial tool that makes any research into European trade mark law fast and easy, whether for academic purposes or actual legal practice. Lawyers, in-house counsel, judges, and academics will all welcome this new edition.
Download or read book The Legal Aspects of the Community Trade Mark written by Mark Milford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical guide to the legal aspects of the Community trade mark, which is an intellectual property right created by an European Council Regulation of December 1993, and which entered into force on 1 April 1996. The main attraction of the Community trade mark is that it enables an applicant to obtain and maintain, with only one registration, trade mark protection throughout the 15 Member States of the European Union (rather than having to obtain and maintain the registration of essentially the same trade mark in each of those countries). The Community trade mark system is administered by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), which is an agency of the European Union. The Community trade mark system has been surprisingly successful since its inception; it is expected that there will, by the end of the year 2000, have been approximately 200,000 applications for a Community trade mark. The aim of this book is to describe how the Community trade mark system works and what procedures it follows, as well as to draw attention to issues of potential concern for any Community trade mark proprietor. The text is thus anchored on the European Union Regulations which set out the rules for the Community trade mark system, and then critically analyses how those Regulations have so far been applied in practice. This analysis notably involves an examination of the administrative practices developed by the OHIM and its various divisions in respect of the Community trade mark, including a detailed review of the case law developed through early September 2000 by the Boards of Appeal of the OHIM. As it is possible to challenge decisions of the OHIM before the Court of Justice of the European Communities, this analysis also incorporates a study of the case law developed by that Court either in respect of, or which is otherwise relevant to, Community trade marks.
Download or read book Community Trade Mark Law written by Frank Bøggild and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction in Europe in 1996 of the Community trade mark (CTM) brought into being a new and independent trade mark system with its own sources of law, its own procedures, and its own administrative and judicial bodies, notably the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), the agency designated to process applications for the registration of CTMs. In 2011, OHIM for the first time received 100,000 applications in one and the same year – which was also the year in which the one millionth application was filed. Case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the European General Court (EGC) on the interpretation of the Trade Mark Regulation and the Trade Mark Directive is – together with decisions of OHIM and its Boards of Appeals – absolutely central to the understanding of Community trade mark law, including the trade mark laws of Member States. This book offers an in-depth scrutiny, categorization, and analysis of this extensive body of case law. Focusing on issues of practical relevance for practitioners, the chapters cover such aspects of Community trade mark law as the following: • OHIM's procedure for registration; • the appeals system (OHIM's Boards of Appeals, the EGC, and the ECJ); • trade mark strategies; • absolute and relative grounds for refusal; • three-dimensional trade marks; • non-registered national trade marks and registration in bad faith; • trade marks with a reputation; • acquired distinctiveness; • trade mark functions and use as a trade mark; • limitations of exclusivity; • nature and extent of genuine use; • grounds for revocation and invalidity; • transfer of trade marks and licensing; • national trade mark courts. Also covered are the pending and proposed amendments to the Trade Mark Regulation and the Trade Mark Directive. This book covers in depth the practical applications of this important and much-used body of law. It will be of enormous value and benefit to company lawyers, attorneys, trade mark attorneys, and anyone else dealing with trade mark law, whether on a Community level or nationally.
Download or read book Special Protection of Trade Marks with a Reputation under European Union Law written by Michal Bohaczewski and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mark acquires a reputation, it becomes a means of attracting consumers by communicating to them various messages going beyond the indication of commercial origin of goods or services. Thus, trade marks familiar to the general public enjoy a special legal protection regime above and beyond that afforded trade marks in general, allowing them to benefit from enhanced protection against reproduction or imitation detrimental to, or taking unfair advantage of, the distinctive character of the mark or its repute. This richly researched book, the first comprehensive guide to current European Union (EU) law and practice concerned with reputed trade marks, conducts an in-depth analysis of this extended protection provided by Regulation 2017/1001 on EU trade marks and Directive 2015/2436 under which it is mandatory across all Member States. Using a practical approach, focused on identifying and analysing the criteria for infringement of trade marks with a reputation in proceedings before civil courts and in administrative proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) or national trade mark offices, the author addresses such elements of the special protection regime as the following: prerequisites for infringement of the right to a reputed mark common to all recognised forms of infringement; how to demonstrate each type of infringement of the right to the trade mark with a reputation (blurring, tarnishment and unfair advantage); proof of reputation; distinguishing the concept of well-known trade mark; legitimate versus questionable justifications of the ‘due cause’ exception within the meaning of EU law provisions; use of a disputed sign falling under freedom of expression; identifying the role of likelihood of confusion under the special regime; and how to prove the existence of a link between the signs in dispute. The author pays detailed attention to the case law of the Court of Justice and General Court of the EU, as well as cases before the EUIPO and national courts. He takes into account research from a number of Member States (plus Switzerland), thus widening prior work in the field from its predominant English-language context. With this book practitioners will confidently approach cases before courts, the EUIPO and national EU trade mark offices involving enhanced protection of trade marks with a reputation. In addition, the book will help judges and trade mark offices examiners to interpret the EU provisions and assess claims regarding such reinforced protection. For scholars and students of intellectual property law, this book will prove a cornerstone volume in the field.
Download or read book European Community Trademark Commentary to the European Community Regulations written by Miguel A. Baz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-11-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An established trademark indicates quality and provides valuable recognition for trade and sales promotion. Without adequate protection, these essential functions are jeopardized. The need for unification in this area, especially in Europe, can no longer be ignored. The Community Directive and Regulation are the response to this need. This commentary provides the texts of essential legislation and offers an analysis of the Directive and Regulation in their historical context. Coverage includes issues such as: grounds for refusal entitlement registration procedures jurisdiction and procedure in legal actions the impact of the Community trademark on applicants from non-member countries The transformation of the Council Directive and the Commission Regulations into national laws in many Member States of the European Union (EU) enhances the value of European Community Trade Mark in the interpretation and analysis of national European trademark laws. Written by leading European experts in the field, this commentary provides an invaluable tool for practitioners, scholars, and marketing managers in interpreting the Community provisions in this specialized, critical area. It is unique in its coupling of a strong theoretical background with the experience of contributors from diverse legal and practical cultures.
Download or read book Community Trade Mark Regulation Commentary written by Gordian N. Hasselblatt and published by . This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EU Trade Mark Law and Product Protection written by Lavinia Brancusi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs scholarly analysis to ground practical tools for applying the EU Trade Mark law (EUTM) functionality refusal grounds to address business needs when registering trade marks consisting of product characteristics. The study comprehensively examines the absolute grounds for a refusal of registration of functional signs under EUTM. It interprets the functionality refusal grounds through objective tests, focusing on the pro-competition rationale of denying trade mark exclusivity on product features that are technically or aesthetically important for competitors’ ability to trade in alternative products. The work takes a comparative approach looking at the US trade dress functionality doctrine, and a law and economics perspective on the role of trade marks and brands in the marketplace. It explores how competition rules related to market definition and the substitutability of products, as well as marketing and design findings related to branding and aesthetics, could be integrated into the legal assessment of EUTM functionality. The volume will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Intellectual Property Law, Trade Mark and Design Law, EU Law, Comparative Law, and Branding.
Download or read book The Community Trade Mark Regulation written by P. A. C. E. van der Kooij and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for all who have anything to do with mentally disabled or disordered people in or out of hospital, for social workers and others who care for them in the community but who may have to use compulsory powers, for doctors, nurses and other professionals concerned with their medical treatment and therapy, and for lawyers, advocates and advice workers who try to protect their interests
Download or read book Certification and Collective Marks written by Jeffrey Belson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certification and Collective Marks is a thoroughly updated and augmented edition of Certification Marks, first published in 2002. This comprehensive study forms a wide-ranging inquiry, with comparisons of the certification and collective mark systems of the UK, EU and US, whilst also referring to other systems. In addition to the laws and policies impacting ownership and use of these marks, also addressed are their historical development, registration and protection, certifiers’ liability, legal and commercial significance, use in regulatory and technical standardization frameworks, and emergent sui generis forms of certification, namely ecolabels and electronic authentication marks in digital content. This publication is especially timely in light of the advent of the EU certification mark and the controversial EU proposals to extend the Geographical Indications system to include non-agri-food products.
