Basic principles concerning the right to trademark in the Paris Convention are the…
Article 6bis of the Paris Convention imposes an obligation on member states to prevent…
“The countries of the Union undertake, ex officio if their legislation so permits, or at the request of an interested party, to refuse or to cancel the registration, and to prohibit the use, of a trademark which constitutes a reproduction, an imitation, or a translation, liable to create confusion, of a mark considered by the competent authority of the country of registration or use to be well known in that country as being already the mark of a person entitled to the benefits of this Convention and used for identical or similar goods. These provisions shall also apply when the essential part of the mark constitutes a reproduction of any such well-known mark or an imitation liable to create confusion therewith…
It should be noted that the trademark must be recognized in the relevant country…
The provision that trademark applications containing the emblems of member states…
