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