Summary of Contents:
- The creation of a Global Mark
- Searching
- Pre-Filing Strategies and Considerations: Where to File Based on a Choice of Legal Systems
- Pre-Filing Strategies and Considerations: Where to File Based on Issues Other Than Legal Systems
- Treaties The Paris Convention
- World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement (Formerly Known as GATT)
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- The Andean Pact
- The Pan-American (Inter-American) Trade Mark Convention
- The Treaty of Mercosur and the Mercosur Protocol
- The Protocol for the Amendment of the Central American Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
- The Community Trademark (CTM)
- The Madrid System
- The African Organization for Intellectual Property Union (AOPI)
- The African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO)
- Filing an International Trademark Application
- Examination and Opposition
- Maintenance of the Mark Through Use
- Maintenance of the Mark Through License Agreements, Franchise Agreements and Joint Venture Agreements
- Assignments
- Maintenance Through Policing
- Infringement of a Registered Mark
- Infringement of Unregistered but Well-Known Marks
- Counterfeiting
- Parallel Importers |