International Intellectual Property

International Trademark Law - The Madrid System
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To find more books, search the catalog using the following as Subject Headings:

• Trademarks (International law)
• Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
• Design protection (International law)
• Internet domain names -- Law and legislation
• International Trade

Trademarks, country studies.
Law school log in required.

Getting the Deal Through - Trademarks, country studies.
Law school log in required.

Trademarks Throughout the World,
law school log in required.

Trademark Practice Throughout the World,
law school log in required.

International Trademark Dilution,
law school log in required.

Trade marks at the limit,
Jeremy Phillips, ed., Edw. Elgar Publishers, 2006. FIU log in required. GL

Main WIPO Trademarks page.

Registration and Searching portals.

ROMARIN database, contains information regarding all international marks recorded under the Madrid system that are currently in force in the International Register.

World Intellectual Property Report 2013, "Brands – Reputation and Image in the Global Marketplace", 140 page report includes statistics.

Directory of National and Regional IP Offices.

International Trademark Association (INTA)

Marques, a european private owner's association.

• TRIPS, Part II, Section 2: Trademarks,
  Articles 15 through 21.
• NAFTA, Chapter 17,
  Article 1708.
• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA),
  not in force. The USTR's ACTA page is here.
• Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA),
  covers IP Rights in Chapter 15. Patent specific provisions are contained in Article 15.2. The USTR page is here.

This is the WIPO listing for International TM Treaties:

Treaties governing general standards of protection to be provided by States

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. The first major international agreement covering patents, designs and marks.
• Trademark Law Treaty
• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
• Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol

Treaties governing registration systems for obtaining protection

• Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
• Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

Treaties governing international classification systems

• Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
• Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks

A list that includes additional regional agreements can be found at this page of the International Trademark Association (INTA).

• WIPO Lex,
  select a country, and then in the 'Subject Matter' entry box select "Trademarks" as the Topic.
• Foreign Law Guide: current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world,
  each country's entry will list sources for their IP legislation. GL
• U.S. Trademark Laws, Title 15, Chapter 22,
  from Cornell's LII.
• Organization of American States (OAS),
  national legislation page.

European Commission's Trademarks and Community Marks landing page. The Community Trade Mark, or CTM, applies in every country in the European Union. It is administered by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM).

National implementing measures to comply with EU directives can be searched on this EurLex page.

EU's Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) Law search page for Trademarks and Designs.

Madrid Protocol
Access to the procedures, rules, enabling acts, and other information regarding the international protocol.

United States International Trade Commission, Intellectual Property
§ 337 information page.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative posts this Intellectual Property  web page.

It also prepares a yearly "Special 301" report, an "...annual review of the global state of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement." The report includes details on copyright, trademark, IP piracy, and IP treaty compliance by various countries. The wide ranging report also sets out a "Watch List" of allegedly egregious violators.

• European Union Trademark Basics
Lesson Completion Time: 1 hr.

• Trademarks in the European Union: Advanced Topics
Lesson Completion Time: 45 minutes