Avoiding Global Trademark Roll-Out Killers by Screening for Distinctiveness and Other Absolute Grounds
By Christopher J. Schulte
Partner, Merchant & Gould, P.C.
Global trademark clearance often starts (and sometimes ends) with a “screening” search. These searches are performed on various trademark search vendors’ platforms that accesses trademark filing and registration data across the globe. […]
WIPO Recommended Standard provides two-letter codes
Here is a useful reference from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ‘Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation’. […]
Madrid Members
We’re often refer to this chart of Madrid Members and hope it will be helpful to others. Please feel free to download it below.
It’s officially called “Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks” and “Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks” as of January 15, 2020.