How To Recognize Well-Known Trademarks In India

Well-known Trademark plays an important role in global markets and in identifying symbols and sign that are widely known to the significant general public and enjoys a fairly high reputation. The first time Well-Known trademark was discussed was in the Paris Convention of Industrial property in 1883, wherein the said convention set out certain guidelines for protection of well-known trademark but they did not lay down any procedure per se  and hence left it to the signatory countries to make their own rules and regulations for registration of such marks. All the countries globally have accepted the significance of Well-known Trademark including India.

India has given well-known Trademark exceptional rights over registration of identical or deceptively similar marks and also against their abuse. The law makers in India have made specific provisions for safeguarding the Well- known trademarks in the Trademark Act of 1999 and the Trademark Rules of 2017, as earlier the