ZAŠTITA ŽIGA U FRANCUSKOM PRAVU XIX VEKA

Abstract

The author presents an overview of the origin and development of trademark protection in France, with special reference to the 19th century. Industrial property, and within it, the trademark, is the fruit of the modern age. The need for trademark protection in France appeared at the beginning of the civil revolution, and since then this institute has been constantly developing, following the needs of the economy. The author gives a brief analysis of the most important provisions of legal acts that have regulated the matter of trademarks since the beginning of the 19th century. In the last decades of the 19th century, multilateral conventions for the protection of industrial property joined the domestic French legislation, led by the famous Paris Convention.