Trade Marks Registry issues guidelines to file application for declaration of a trademark as “well-known”

While the Trade Marks Registry has since 2003 published a list of “well-known” marks on its website based on court decisions declaring a mark to be “famous” or “well known”, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (“the Act”) had no specific provision to seek a formal declaration regarding the well-known status of a mark. To address this concern…