Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1870

Kuwait’s accession to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (GATT) by Law No. 81 of 1995 and to the Convention of the World Intellectual Property Organization by Law No. 2 of 1998. Its import. - 537 - Administrative: the provisions of the 2 agreements have the force of legislation, whose rules the judge is required to apply to relationships falling within their scope of application, to the exclusion of other legal provisions. - Conferring international protection on a registered trademark under the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, to which Kuwait acceded by Law 2 of 1998. Its condition: accession to this Convention by both countries, the first in which the trademark is registered and the second in which registration of this trademark is opposed. The judgment’s annulment of the challenged decision rejecting the opposition to registration without verifying the aforementioned accession. A deficiency vitiating it and requiring its cassation. - 538 - Administrative: Industrial plots