The Effects of Trademark Rights on the East African Common Market

Niteleka Jacob Nichaenzi Jaconiah

doi:10.5771/9783845242156

Summary

Das Werk befasst sich mit der Schnittstelle zwischen Markenrecht und dem Grundsatz des freien Warenverkehrs aufgrund des East African Community common market. Der Autor untersucht, inwieweit sich die Prinzipien des Gemeinsamen Marktes gegenüber den gesetzlich beanspruchbaren Monopolrechten, die sich aus den nationalen Markenschutzregelungen ergeben, durchsetzen können.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-7700-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-4215-6
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Munich Intellectual Property Law Center - MIPLC Studies
Volume: 16
Language: English
Pages: 276
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 2 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
Preface Pages 5 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
Table of contents Pages 7 - 14 Download chapter (PDF)
List of abbreviations Pages 15 - 18 Download chapter (PDF)
General introduction Pages 19 - 22 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction Pages 23 - 23 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Institutions responsible for trade mark registration Pages 23 - 24 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Tanzanian law
    2. Kenyan and Ugandan laws
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    1. 1. Under the Tanzania Trade Mark Law
        Under the Kenyan and Ugandan Trade Mark Laws
      2. Descriptive and generic marks
      3. The Tanzanian Law
        The Kenyan and Ugandan laws
      4. Under the Tanzanian Law
        Under the Kenyan and Ugandan laws
    2. 1. Prior registered trade mark
      2. Prior unregistered trade mark
      3. Business or company name
      4. Trade mark application filed in the name of agent
4. Trade mark opposition and cancellation procedure Pages 35 - 36 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Use of a mark as a trade mark
    2. The use of business or company names
    3. Trade mark with reputation
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    1. Use of one’s own name
    2. Descriptive use of a trade mark
    3. Honest concurrent use of trade marks
    4. Exhaustion of trade mark rights
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    1. Renewal of registration
    2. Obligation to use a registered trade mark
6. International trade mark registration Pages 42 - 43 Download chapter (PDF)
7. Concluding remarks Pages 43 - 44 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction Pages 45 - 45 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. The EAC Treaty (EACT)
    2. The EAC Common Market Protocol (CMP)
    3. The EAC Customs Union Protocol (CUP)
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    1. The Common Market Protocol
    2. The Customs Union Protocol
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    1. 1. Trade mark as a badge of origin
      2. Trade mark as a guarantee of quality
      3. Guarantee of origin
        Guarantee of quality
    2. 1. Forms of trade mark exhaustion
      2. National exhaustion
      3. International exhaustion
      4. Regional Exhaustion
    3. 1. The Tanzanian law
        The Kenyan and Ugandan laws
      2. The Tanzanian law
        The Kenyan and Ugandan laws
      3. Conclusion thereof
    4. 1. The Tanzanian law
      2. The Kenyan and Ugandan laws
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    1. 1. Legislative freedom under Article 8 TRIPS
      2. The chapeau
      3. The national trade mark exhaustion meets TRIPS’ minimum standards
      4. The debate on Article 6 TRIPS
    2. 1. The national treatment
      2. The most favoured nation principle
      3. Prohibition of quantitative restrictions under Article XI GATT
      4. Provisos under Paragraph (d) of Article XX GATT
        Provisos under the chapeau
4. Concluding remarks Pages 77 - 78 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introductory remarks Pages 79 - 80 Download chapter (PDF)
2. Office responsible for CTM system Pages 80 - 81 Download chapter (PDF)
3. 1. Substantive requirement – the capability to distinguish Pages 81 - 83 Download chapter (PDF)
  2. Formal requirement – the graphical representation Pages 83 - 83 Download chapter (PDF)
  3. Essence of the formal requirement Pages 83 - 84 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Smells
    2. Sounds
    3. Colours
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    1. Requirements of Article 4 of the CTMR
    2. Distinctiveness
    3. Descriptiveness
    4. Generic Signs
    5. Shape Marks
    6. Further absolute grounds – Article 7(1) (f) – (k)
    7. Acquired distinctiveness and public policy
  2. Relative grounds for refusal Pages 111 - 112 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Article 9 of the CTMR
    2. Article 8 of the CTMR
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    1. CTM function and likelihood of confusion
    2. In whose view is the likelihood of confusion determined?
    3. 1. Visual similarity
        Aural or phonetic similarity
        Conceptual similarity
      2. Similarity of goods and/or services
    4. Likelihood of association
  3. Trademark use as a condition for infringement Pages 131 - 133 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Reputation – what is it?
    2. 1. Unfair advantage
      2. Detriment
      3. Without due cause
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    1. 1. Use of one’s own name and address
      2. Descriptive use of a CTM
      3. Use of a CTM to indicate intended purpose
      4. Proviso to Article 12
    2. Exhaustion of CTM rights
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    1. Renewal of CTM registration
    2. Obligation to use a CTM
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    1. Priority Right
    2. Seniority right
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    1. Procedure and contents
    2. Search procedure
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    1. Objection procedure
    2. Grounds for opposition
    3. Entitlement to file a notice of opposition
    4. Opposition proceedings
    5. Strategies and defences
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    1. Non-use
    2. Improper use of a CTM
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    1. Absolute grounds for invalidity
    2. Relative grounds for invalidity
  3. Effects of CTM revocation and invalidity Pages 166 - 167 Download chapter (PDF)
8. 1. EC as a designated territory Pages 167 - 170 Download chapter (PDF)
  2. CTM registration or application as a basis for international registration Pages 170 - 172 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction Pages 173 - 174 Download chapter (PDF)
2. 1. Co-existence of trade marks Pages 174 - 176 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. 1. Status of the earlier national trademark
      2. Identity of the marks
        Same owner
        Identical goods and/or services
    2. Examination of seniority claim
    3. 1. Merits
      2. Demerits
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    1. 1. Withdrawal of a Community trade mark application
      2. Cessation of effects of Community trade mark
      3. Refusal of registration
      4. Successful cancellation proceedings
    2. 1. Non-use of a Community trade mark
      2. Grounds for refusal available in one Member State
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    1. Absolute grounds for trademark refusal
    2. Opposition against registration of Community trade marks
    3. Cancellation of Community trade marks
  2. Preservation of earlier rights under national law Pages 187 - 187 Download chapter (PDF)
4. 1. Application of Brussels Regulation Pages 187 - 189 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. 1. Infringement actions
      2. Validity of a Community trade mark
    2. 1. Connection of parties and courts
      2. Factors contained in the Brussels Regulation
      3. Place where harmful act takes place
    3. Delimitation of jurisdiction
    4. 1. Similar Community trade mark claims
      2. Related Community trade mark and national trade mark claims
    5. Jurisdiction to award temporary reliefs
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    1. Rome II Regulation
    2. 1. General applicable law
      2. The law applicable to sanctions
      3. Efficacy of lex loci delicti rule
  4. Recognition and enforcement of Judgments Pages 204 - 206 Download chapter (PDF)
5. Concluding remarks Pages 206 - 206 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction Pages 207 - 208 Download chapter (PDF)
2. 1. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union Pages 208 - 209 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. 1. Grundig
      2. Parke
      3. Sirena
      4. Deutsche Grammophon
    2. Specific subject-matter of intellectual property
    3. Essential function of a trade mark
3. 1. Delineation and forms of trade mark exhaustion Pages 217 - 218 Download chapter (PDF)
  2. Rationale of Community trade mark exhaustion Pages 218 - 220 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Putting goods on the market
    2. 1. Consent is given for specific goods
      2. Express and implied consent
      3. Contractual restrictions do not vitiate consent
    3. Burden of proof in relation to exhaustion
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    1. 1. Artificial partitioning of the common market
      2. Condition of goods
      3. Notice of repackaging
      4. Identity of a person who repackaged the goods
      5. Reputation of a trade mark
    2. 1. Rebranding
      2. Removal of a stock code
      3. Reworked products
4. Concluding summary Pages 236 - 238 Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction Pages 239 - 240 Download chapter (PDF)
2. 1. The principle of unitary character Pages 240 - 241 Download chapter (PDF)
  2. The principle of Coexistence of trade mark rights Pages 241 - 242 Download chapter (PDF)
  3. Interaction between trade mark coexistence and unitary principles Pages 242 - 243 Download chapter (PDF)
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    1. Abandonment of the unitary principle
    2. Unitary character not to be defined by the entire scale of the regional bloc
    3. 1. Free movement of goods
      2. Competition in trade-marked goods
      3. Unitary character as a means of expansion of economic activities
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    1. Abolition of the national trade mark
    2. 1. Incentives to ensure that the national system fades away
      2. The Benelux model: Transforming existing national trade marks into EAC trade marks
    3. The German trade mark model
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    1. Non-examination system at national offices
    2. Examination system at the EAC trade mark office
    3. 1. The use requirement
      2. Consequences of non-compliance with the use requirement
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    1. National trade mark registrations
    2. Applications for national trade marks
    3. Conciliation board
Bibliography Pages 265 - 276 Download chapter (PDF)