Madrid: a flourishing system?
29-09-2016
Progress on implementing the Madrid System for international trademark registration around the world presents a mixed picture, as Sarah Morgan reports.
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Madrid System is certainly thriving:
in 2019, it recorded its 1.5 millionth international trademark registration, in the same year that the United Nations agency celebrated 30 years since the adoption of the Madrid Protocol, the cornerstone of the Madrid System.
While the system has been in existence for more than 125 years, three-quarters of its current members joined it during the past three decades. Membership in the Madrid System quadrupled from just 25 members in 1988, to 107 members now. The protocol, which came into effect in 1996, allows for applicants to apply for or register a mark through an office of origin in their own country or region (if that is a signatory) and then designate international registrations based on tha
Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & Uhthoff - Mexico By
Marina Espitia
With image rights protected mainly by the Federal Copyright Law, the overlap between an individual’s right to control use of their image and the automatic copyright established on behalf of an author can lead to courtroom conflicts.
Image and publicity rights are designed to protect the images of ordinary people and those in the public eye. The term ‘image’ comes from the latin
imagines, meaning figure, representation, similarity and appearance of a thing. What is more, Elvia Lucia Flores Ávalos points out in
Right to the image and civil responsibility that ‘personal image’ refers to an individual’s physical appearance, which can be captured in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography or video. On that basis, an image right is a right through which a person’s image is protected in order to prevent third parties from capturing or disseminating it without