Kashyntseva O. The Protection of Trade Marks of Goods and Services in Ukraine.

This dissertation contains the academic and practical analyses on a sphere of law protection of trade marks of goods and services in Ukraine. The author makes a research of the historical development of trade marks of goods and services which helps to study and to foresee the development of the law on protection of trade marks of goods and services currebtly and in a future. The author proposes the new definition of trade marks of goods and services in a point of the semiotic and symbol nature of a mark. The clarifying of the existing definition of trade marks of goods and services is important for practice implementation of the law, because of the misunderstandings of current definition which take place between words "mark" and "sign" in Ukrainian language.