Background
The intellectual property rights existed since 1960s and 1970s in the Kingdom of
Cambodia. A number of trademarks were also protected during that period of time
such as PERTUSSIN in class 5, filing No. 1973 in the year 1966 and RIBENA in
class 5 and 32, with filing No. 10318 in 1973. And then, unfortunately Cambodia
fell into the internal serious crisis of civil war resulted in the abandonment of
intellectual property field for almost of two decades. With Paris Peace Agreement
of October 23, 1991, Cambodia began to restore its national economic infrastructure
which brought back the intellectual property sector on track. As a result, the Office of
Trademark was created in 1991 under the supervision of Ministry of Commerce with
the tasks to register and protect trademarks with technical support and assistance from
various countries, in particular, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based
in Geneva, Switzerland.
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