Criteria For Trademarks (Well-Known and Ordinary) Under Intellectual Property Conventions and Related Rights

Abstract

In recent years, most countries have witnessed changes in their intellectual property rights challenges. Intellectual rights of both individuals and companies are now entitled to stringent laws that encompass civil and criminal protection of trademarks passing through the desert of people and groups in societies, trademarks that are to be safeguarded against creativity and ideas. This has reached the point where international agreements and treaties have been drawn between nations, compelling them to observe the rights of other nations in the sphere of trademarks of any type. This paper, titled: "Standards of trademarks (famous and ordinary) under IP agreements (TRIPS, WIPO) and related rights, " will help to illuminate the picture of intellectual property rights and the degree to which the latter enjoys protection, in provisions of related rights, including trademarks. In his research, the researcher discovered that respect for trademarks has been greatly attended to in the enactment of laws and regulations within countries as well as in the international treaties and agreements between countries, bearing in mind the fact that the protection of such rights is a component of the personality of the individual and entities. Some of these agreements include the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the Paris Convention on the Protection of Industrial Property (WIPO). The same has been given to ordinary and famous trademarks, which have been given the largest proportion of this legal protection as a distinction of one product over another. Their infringement, as well as imitations or utilization by others, is detrimental to the producer, consumer, and the state as a whole. This damages the maker of the products when people are no longer able to market their products and merchants in their trade. This also adversely affects consumers. Well-known trademarks are afforded through civil protection within a country. and criminal prosecution of someone who tries to use it in other ways. By the end of the research, the researchers came to a list of conclusions and recommendations.