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To: Moltke

No; I’m saying the UN is a precarious and dangerous entity, whose position on such trademarks would be mercurial and would be favoring the EU.


21 posted on 07/31/2017 6:39:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The “UN” does not make trademark decisions. WIPO is merely an administrative vehicle to facilitate the Paris Convention of 1883 (way before the UN, the Soviet Union or the EU ever blighted earth).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Industrial_Property

The actual decisions whether to grant or deny protection for a particular trademark (or patent, or design) are made in the member countries.

This is a good thing for all concerned parties.


25 posted on 07/31/2017 10:18:49 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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