Above all, your mark must be sufficiently distinctive to be protectable and registrable with your national and foreign trademark offices. |
Who should benefit from any such protection or who hold the rights to protectable traditional knowledge? |
Shapes which are part and parcel of product itself should not be protectable as a trade mark. |
Patent law should not seek to control research, development and exploitation of inventions by restricting protectable subject matter. |
But these marks are not immediately protectable and at best will only be the subject of relatively narrow trademark rights. |
However, AIPPI believes that a second level domain may constitute a protectable trade name provided that the name fulfils the conditions applicable to trade names in accordance with local law. |