WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION 
              INTRODUCTION TO TRADEMARK 
                     LAW & PRACTICE 
                   THE BASIC CONCEPTS 
                   A WIPO TRAINING MANUAL 
                           GENEVA 
                             1993 
                          (Second Edition) 
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                          WIPO PUBLICATION 
                             No 653 (El 
                          ISBN  92-805-0167-4 
                            WIPO  1993 
                                   PREFACE 
                 The  present publication  is  the second edition of a  volume of the same title that 
               was published by  the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in  1987  and 
               reprinted in  1990. 
                 The first edition was written by Mr. Douglas Myall, former Assistant Registrar of 
               Trade Marks, United Kingdom. 
                 The present revised  edition  of the  publication  has  been  prepared  by Mr.  Gerd 
               Kunze, Vevey, Switzerland, and reflects his extensive expertise and experience in  the 
               administration  of  the  trademark  operations  of  a  large  international  corporation, 
               Nestle  S. A.,  as  well  as  his  intensive  involvement,  as  a  leading  representative  of 
               several  international  non-governmental  organizations,  in  international  meetings 
               convened by WIPO. 
                 This  publication  is  intended  to  provide  a  practical  introduction  to  trademark 
               administration for those with little or no  experience of the subject but who may have 
               to deal with it in an official or business capacity. Throughout the text, the reader is 
               invited  to  answer  questions  relating  to  the  text.  Those questions  are  numbered  to 
               correspond to the answers that are given, with a short commentary, in Appendix I. 
                                               Arpad Bogsch 
                                               Director General 
                                       World Intellectual Property Organization 
               February 1993