| Abstract [eng] |
This master thesis is devoted to analyzing and comparing Community, national and international systems of trade mark registration and their interrelation, revealing the substantial opportunities they provide for the proprietors of registered trade marks. First of all, historically the earliest national trade mark registration system is being studied in the thesis following the law of the Republic of Lithuania, distinguishing those issues, regulation of which is substantially different in the other EU member states, e. g. the examination procedure of the applied mark. Further the international system of trade mark registration (the Madrid system) is being analyzed: the distinctions and relation of the treaties regulating this system, the features of registration procedure and its consequences, the international registration dependency on the national one and the possibility of converting and transforming the registration are analyzed. Essential features of the operation of the Community trade mark system, its relation with national and international systems are being analyzed in the thesis; special attention has been paid to conversion and seniority analysis as well as the matters of solving national and Community trade mark conflicts related to the enlargement of European Union. In the last part of the thesis the factors which can determine the choice of a registration system (registration costs, territory in which protection is sought and may be obtained, other important features of the system) are summed-up and briefly reported. |
