Actual Problems of Protection of Exclusive Rights to Trademarks

   The protection of exclusive rights to trademarks in our country is a complex ambiguous legal problem, judicial practice on which is still insufficient due to the relatively recent introduction of the norms of civil law regulation of the protection of exclusive rights to trademarks in the current legislation. The decisions of different courts may not only not correspond, but also contradict each other. Even if there are such differences among the employees of the courts in understanding the issues of protection of exclusive rights to trademarks, what can we say about ordinary citizens and representatives of legal entities? The civil law regulation of the issues under consideration is also complicated due to the vagueness of the wording adopted in legislative acts. It is not easy to understand these documents without special training. This leads to the fact that individuals and legal entities engaged in entrepreneurial activity do not know their rights, obligations and do not understand the measures of responsibility. Accordingly, at the time of receipt of the claim, in most cases, legal entities and individuals do not understand the essence of the violation committed, as well as what they should do to resolve the situation. In foreign practice, these issues have been considered for a long time and have a well-founded system of legislative regulation of processes related to the protection of exclusive rights to trademarks. Most often, various kinds of abuses are committed in relation to well-known trademarks. Since the time of the Paris Convention, adopted in 1883, the protection of trademarks has been the object of close attention. These issues are also addressed in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The researchers believe that in the near future we should expect the expansion of the trademark protection system and the use of more extensive concepts than the concept of "trademark infringement". In 2006 The US legislation was supplemented by a law, the provisions of which allowed owners of public trademarks to form lawsuits to resolve the issue of illegal use of trademarks, as a result of which associations are eroded, eliminated and the reputation of the owner of the mark is damaged. Many States have introduced into their legislation provisions on the possibility of entering information into the created databases of trademarks by their owners, which allowed customs authorities to counteract piracy. The author analyzes the accumulated judicial practice in order to form an understanding of the courts' point of view on solving complex issues of civil protection of exclusive rights to trademarks of the point of view of the courts on solving complex issues of civil protection of exclusive rights to trademarks.

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