Well-known Marks — How to Keep them Protected
Oksana V. Horban
It is a growing trend around the world that dishonest registrants try to register well–known marks or their reproduction, imitation or translation (disputed marks), and Ukraine is no exception. Accordingly, the question arises — what instrumentality does Ukrainian law offer to owners of well-known marks to protect themselves from registrations of disputed marks?The simple “two-step” checklist may prove useful.
Having ratified the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (the Paris Convention) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights(the TRIPS Agreement) Ukraine was obliged to implement the standards of protection of well-known marks into national legislation…
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