The new Trade Marks Act, 1999, which came into force in September 2003 is the result of this realization.

Unlike the United States Lanham Act, 1946 the English Trade Marks Act, 1994 and the Indian Act, 1999 do not have provisions like section 43 ( a ) ( of Lanham Act ) to protect un-registered trade dress or allow registration of trade dress which qualifies the tests of distinctiveness and source identifier.

Australian trade mark law is based on the Trade Marks Act 1995 ( Cth ), which is administered by IP Australia, an Australian government agency within the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.

Amongst other things, the Trade Marks Act defines trade marks ( including certification marks and collective marks ), what constitutes trademark infringement and defences and exceptions thereto, and ( together with the Trade Marks Regulations ) sets out procedures for registration and other proceedings before the Registrar of Trade Marks.

Section 17 of the Trade Marks Act defines a trade mark as " a sign used, or intended to be used, to distinguish goods or services dealt with or provided in the course of trade by a person from goods or services so dealt with or provided by any other person ".

The Australian Trade Marks Office Manual of Practice and Procedure is an official publication produced by IP Australia, which provides detailed information to examiners and applicants on the practices and procedures relating to the filing, examination, and registration of a trade mark in accordance with the provisions of the Trade Marks Act 1995 ( Cth ).

* Australian Trade Marks Office Manual of Practice and Procedure

* Institute of Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys of Australia ( IPTA )

The rupee equivalent of $63.8 million, but not more than 5 percent of the currencies received under the Agreement will be used for loans to be made by the Export-Import Bank of Washington under Section 104 ( E ) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, as amended ( hereinafter referred to as the Act ), and for administrative expenses of the Export-Import Bank of Washington in India incident thereto.

The Bahamas is a beneficiary of the U. S .- Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act ( CBTPA ), Canada's CARIBCAN program, and the European Union's Lome IV Agreement.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

British Standards are one of the formal exceptions made to the Restrictive Trade Practices Act.

Use of modern refining techniques was especially important because the British Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire ( but slavery itself remained legal until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).

* Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1946

For the purpose of section 243 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992, a crime means an offence punishable on indictment, or an offence punishable on summary conviction, and for the commission of which the offender is liable under the statute making the offence punishable to be imprisoned either absolutely or at the discretion of the court as an alternative for some other punishment.

The Federal Trade Commission Act regulates all forms of advertising, including online advertising, and states that advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive.

In Australia, franchising is regulated by the " Franchising Code of Conduct ", a mandatory code of conduct concluded under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Guatemala was certified to receive export trade benefits under the United States ' Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act ( CBTPA ) in October 2000, and enjoys access to U. S. Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP ) benefits.

* 1807: The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

This was achieved in the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

He lived to see the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807.

Parliament passed the Trade Union Act on June 14 the following year, and soon all unions were seeking a 54-hour work-week.

However, following the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) at the WTO, the 1988 Telecommunications Act was replaced with by the Telecommunications Act of 1998 which provided the legal framework to enable the emergence of a free and democratised telecommunications market on the island.

* 1933 – New Deal: The U. S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

* 1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

* 1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

The Fantasy Sports Trade Association was formed in 1999 to represent the growing industry.

* Zeiler, Thomas W. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT ( 1999 ) excerpt and text search

Latvia is a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) since 1999, and a member of the European Union since 2004.

He led the Official Opposition until 1993 and was spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Trade until 1999.

In 1998, he ran for the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation and was elected to this position on 22 July 1999.

Mike Moore was the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, his term coincided with momentous changes in the global economy and multilateral trading system.

* Director General of the World Trade Organisation 1999 – 2002.

* The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the Illicit Drug Trade, Ricardo Vargas Meza, Transnational Institute ( TNI ), June 1999

Yemen was granted observer status at the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 1999 and in 2002 and 2003 submitted necessary documentation for full membership.

* GATT update and creation of the World Trade Organization and other global economic institutions, but opposition by anti-globalization activists showed up in nearly every GATT summit, like the demonstrations in Seattle in December 1999.

* The anti-globalization protests at the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle, Washington began on 30 November 1999.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), set 32 years before A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi, now played by Ewan McGregor, is seen as a young Jedi Padawan, in which role he accompanies his master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) in negotiations with the Trade Federation, who are blockading the planet Naboo.

In December 1999, the Council of Ministers approved the Southern African Development Community Trade Protocol ( SADC Trade Protocol ).

The game was announced by a press conference inside the Henley-Suite at the European Computer Trade Show 1999 approximately 1: 00 PM.

As a result of negotiations initiated in 1999 on a possible South American Free Trade Area ( SAFTA ), Mercosur and the Andean Community of Nations announced in December 2004 that they would merge, creating a Union of South American Nations modeled after the European Union.

He was present at the protests at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

It has also been suggested that the beginnings of the World Social Forum originated in the Battle for Seattle November 1999, where anti-globalization activists protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization's latest trade negotiations.