Explain trade mark legislation in the EC

A trade mark serves two ends: on the one hand it ensures the holder of the trade mark the goodwill associated with the marked product; on the other hand it informs the consumer that the product is of specific kind as opposed to a copy, 'enabling the consumer who acquired them to repeat the experience, if it proves to be positive, or to avoid it, if it proves to be negative, on the occasion of …showed first 75 words of 1258 total…

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