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TRADEMARK LAW SYLLABUS Reading Ref
TRADEMARK LAW SYLLABUS Reading Ref
TRADEMARK LAW SYLLABUS Reading Ref
I. INTRODUCTION:
1. Meaning & Characteristics of a Trademark.
2. Meaning & Characteristics Protection:
Evolution of ‘Marks’/ Proprietary Marks.
Development of Trademark protection in India.
3. Foundations and Functions of Trademarks .
4. International Developments & Dimensions of Trademark Protection:
a) Paris Convention For The Protection Of Industrial Property, 1883
b) Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), 1995.
c) Madrid System for International Registration of Marks:
Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks,
1891
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement, 1989
d) Trademark Law Treaty, 1994.
e) Nice Agreement, 1957 (Nice classification of classes of goods & Services)
f) Vienna Agreement, 1973 (Vienna Classification)
5. Categories of trademarks
a) Non-Conventional trademarks: Well-known marks, certification marks, collective
trademarks, series trademark and associated trademarks.
b) Non-Conventional trademarks: Smell Marks, Sound Marks. Colour Marks
(Single Colour), Taste Marks, Moving Images/ Hologram/ Gesture, Three
Dimensional Trademarks.
Non-Conventional trademarks
Conventional trademarks
3. WIPO’s Portal