Description: An explanation of the various laws relating to trademarks.

Excerpt from Things to Know About Trade-Marks: A Manual of Trade-Mark Information Our idea, in preparing this little book, is to set forth, in clear and simple language, the main features of the law relating to trade-marks and to illustrate its application by specific examples of well-known trade-marks now in use. To an advertiser who has had but little experience in registering trade-marks, the law, with a congested mass of precedents surrounding it, seems to be a legal maze. But its intricacy is more apparent than real. The law is quite clear and explicit when one has the patience and experience in such matters to get to the bottom of it. We have endeavored to write this book in language so clear that any business man will understand it, and we feel sure that it will give any one a good working knowledge of trade-mark requirements. It has not been our intention to produce an exhaustive treatise on the subject. Such a treatment of the law of trade-marks and its allied subject of unfair trade would require a large volume, and the long and intricate discussion of minor points necessary in a work of that kind would be wearisome and perhaps unintelligible to the lay reader. Nor have we discussed the origin of the custom of identifying merchandise by trade-marks. This phase of the subject - trade-marks in their historical aspect - is interesting in an academic sense, but it has little or no bearing on the trade-mark situation of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This Guide is primarily intended for applicants and holders of international registrations of marks, as well as officials of the competent administrations of the Member States of the Madrid Union. It leads them through the various steps of the international registration procedure and explains the essential provisions of the Madrid Agreement, the Madrid Protocol and the Common Regulations.