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frankwu · **on:** Aug 3, 2018

List the current multi-national trademark registries: (for extra credit, list the member countries for each multi-national registry)

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Copyright law protects the _____________ of an idea rather than the idea itself.

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

T4T · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 3, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Currently, there are four (4 ) multinational trademark registries.

1- Organization Africaine de la Propriete Intellectuelle or the African Intellectual
Property Organization (OAPI or AIPO) comprised of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania,
Niger, Senegal, and Togo
2- African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO) comprised of Botswana,
Gambia, Ghanam Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland,
Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
3- Benelux comprised of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
4- The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM also known as The
Community Trademark) comprised of the members of the European Union, namely Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden

Answer to Question 2

Expression