Publication 833: Joint Recommendation & Article 1 (Definitions)
Joint Recommendation
The Assembly of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property and the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),
Taking into account the provisions of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property relative to the protection of well-known marks;
Recommend that each Member State may consider the use of any of the provisions adopted by the Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) at its second session, second part, as guidelines for the protection for well-known marks;
It is further recommended to each Member State of the Paris Union or of WIPO which is also a member of a regional intergovernmental organization that has competence in the area of registration of trademarks, to bring to the attention of that organization the possibility of protecting well-known marks in accordance, mutatis mutandis, with the provisions contained herein.
Provisions follow.
Article 1
Definitions
For the purposes of these Provisions:
(i) Member State means a State member of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property and/or of the World Intellectual Property Organization;
(ii) Office means any agency entrusted by a Member State with the registration of marks;
(iii) competent authority means an administrative, judicial or quasi-judicial authority of a Member State which is competent for determining whether a mark is a well-known mark, or for enforcing the protection of well-known marks;
(iv) business identifier means any sign used to identify a business of a natural person, a legal person, an organization or an association;
(v) domain name means an alphanumeric string that corresponds to a numerical address on the Internet.
