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Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]

As always, I am grateful to noble Lords for their points. Clearly, it is easy to confuse trademarks and geographical indications. With geographical indications, there is a principle of established use, whereas with trademarks, something is either trademarked or it is not. That is why we are comfortable with the language as it sits.

There is no reference in the Trade Marks Act 1994 to the concept of “established by use”, because the concept refers to unregistered trademarks, whereas the Trade Marks Act is concerned principally with protections conferred on registered marks. However, “established by use” has meaning under the law relating to geographical indications.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
834 c183GC 
Session
2023-24
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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