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Now in its sixth year, Class 46 is dedicated to European trade mark law and practice. This weblog is written by a team of enthusiasts who want to spread the word and share their thoughts with others.


	THURSDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2008 OHIM: Latest Alicante News now published The latest edition of "Alicante News", the OHIM's monthly newsletter has now been published. As usual, the newsletter includes numerous interesting items, such this month's country overview, which concentrates on "Belgium & the Community Trade Mark". In this issue of the newsletter James Nurton talks to Clarke Graham of Marks & Clerk in London about Alicante, ECTA and the future of trade marks in Europe. The newsletter also includes information on the INTA – WIPO trade mark and design forum, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys conference and Marques annual conference . The newsletter further contains OHIM's E-business roundup (2008), as well monthly statistical "highlights" for July 2008 and August 2008 and its usual - but always interesting - case law selection; most noteworthy inlcuding this item: CTM ruled invalid on copyright grounds. Please click on the link to retrieve the newsletter in its entirety (in PDF Format). Posted by: Birgit Clark @ 12.32 Tags: Alicante News, OHIM,

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Spain - Recent changes to the Spanish Trade Mark Act.

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Non-minor amendments to PDOs announced

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Russian Federation: Tanks against counterfeit merchandise

Poland: problems with SeX

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Dutch brewery Bavaria sells soft drinks division

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Recent Community trade mark appeals

Davidoff heads back to the ECJ

Application to amend PDO specification

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Spanish to be recognized as an official language of the Madrid system.

Poland: foreign and fanciful

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Two more trade mark questions go for preliminary rulings

Italian government axes anti-counterfeiting watchdog

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Artwork for Rolling Stones logo fetches $92,500

Germany: "Commerzbank, die Beraterbank" (?)

Consumer group demands removal of Green Dot symbol

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