IMPROVING LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR PROTECTION OF WELL-KNOWN TRADEMARKS IN UZBEKISTAN WITH COMPARISON OF FOREIGN PRACTICE
Keywords:
Well-known trademark, intellectual property, Paris convention, service marks, domestic legislation, international law, evidences, Board of appealAbstract
This article analyzes the issues of developing legal regulation of well-known trademarks. The importance of a well-known trademark lies in the fact that they bring huge commercial value for the trademark owners. In recent years, the companies are trying to declare their product as well-known to the public, so that they can protect their trade and service marks on wider scale. However, this trend is not developed under the legislation of Uzbekistan. This article discusses the core issues of legislation of Uzbekistan on determination of well-known trademarks in comparison with other problematic points in domestic laws of Vietnam and Japan. It also suggests some approaches to deal with these problems as a concluding remark of a research.
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