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‫ المجلس الأعلى للثقافة‬- ‫لجنة حماية الملكية الفكرية‬

     agreements to protect well-     One of the objectives of the
     known marks, and despite        research, as we mentioned
     the fact that the national      earlier, is to shed light on the
     laws of all countries aim to    legislative efforts of different
     provide protection to trade-    countries in their confronta-
     mark owners, and to ensure      tion with the phenomenon of
     that others are prevented       appropriation of marks, as
     from registering their marks.   well as clarify the judicial ef-
     Is protecting well-known        forts in this context, in differ-
     marks not enough? Or,           ent countries. Accordingly,
     Does the national protection    we will adhere to the com-
     of marks in some countries      parative approach in order to
     need to be reviewed? And        achieve the objectives of the
     if the answer is in the affir-  research.
     mative, Are there legislative
     experiences of some coun-        Research Plan:
     tries that can be benefited
     from?                                  To achieve the objec-
                                     tive of this research, I should
      Methodology:                   divide it as follow. The First
                                     section: What is Trademark
              In this research, we   Squatting? Second section:
     will adhere to the compar-      How does trademark squat-
     ative approach, which is        ting work in the context of
     imposed by the nature of        ‘first to file’ and ‘first to use’
     the research. As this study     jurisdictions? Third section:
     relies on comparative law.      Efforts to confront the trade-

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