Tiêu đề NLUD 2.5 - Lesson 5 (JdeWerra 04 02 2025).pdf ✅

04/02/2025 1 IP Licensing and Contract Management (5) Prof. Jacques de Werra Digital Law Center University of Geneva National Law University Delhi – EP 2.5 © J. de Werra 2025 www.digitallawcenter.ch 2 hArt. 6septies para. 1 Paris Convention (N.B. Art. 2 para. 1 TRIPS): « If the agent or representative of the person who is the proprietor of a mark in one of the countries of the Union applies, without such proprietor’s authorization, for the registration of the mark in his own name, in one or more countries of the Union, the proprietor shall be entitled to oppose the registration applied for or demand its cancellation or, if the law of the country so allows, the assignment in his favor of the said registration, unless such agent or representative justifies his action » 1 2
04/02/2025 2 3 Trademarks registered by an agent (art. 6septies PC) www.s100.de www.s100.com 4 hArt. 4 Swiss Trademark Act: « Protection shall also not be available to trade marks registered in the name of agents, representatives or other authorised users without the consent of the owner or which remain entered in the Register after withdrawal of consent » 3 4
04/02/2025 3 5 Monist / dualist States h « The countries where the ratification of a treaty following legislative approval gives it ipso facto the status of domestic law may be described as monist States. By contrast, the other group, the so-called dualist States, require some further legislative action [...] » (T. Buergenthal, Recueil Des Cours - Collected Courses, 1992- IV, Académie de Droit International de la Haye, 318) 6 Monist / dualist States (c’td) hIt is « not unusual to find that one and the same treaty or treaty provision may be self-executing in one State and non-self-executing in another. [...]. It is also not unusual for some provisions of a treaty to be self-executing and for others not » (T. Buergenthal, Recueil Des Cours - Collected Courses, 1992-IV, Académie de Droit International de la Haye, 318) 5 6
04/02/2025 4 7 hCan the protection granted under Art. 6septies PC also apply if the trademark registered by the agent is not identical but is only similar to the trademark of the foreign proprietor of the trademark ? « MINERAL MAGIC » vs « MAGIC MINERAL BY JEROME ALEXANDER » CJEU, Judgment of 11 Nov 2020, C-809/18 (EUIPO v John Mills) Reynolds Presto Products v PRS Mediterranean • Canada: Reynolds Presto Products Inc. v. P.R.S. Mediterranean Ltd., 2013 FCA 119 • USA: Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc. v. PRS Mediterranean Ltd., No. 91189669re (T.T.A.B. Feb. 14, 2014) • EU: PRS Mediterranean v OHIM – Reynolds Presto Products (NEOWEB) (Case T-166/14) • South Africa: Pretoria, 2014 (5) SA 353 (GP) 8 7 8