Research report 2010 - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Study on the overall functioning of the European trade mark system

Authors
Knaak, Roland; Venohr, Philipp
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht, München
Summary
The review of the Community trade mark system undertaken on behalf of the European Commission leads to fundamental systemic issues that are of great importance particularly to the coexistence of the Community trade mark system and the national systems. A project carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law has analyzed these issues and the European trade mark law as a whole, and has worked out improvement suggestions.

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