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European Commission:
The Study on the overall functioning of the Trade Mark System in Europe
 
 Overview
 Background Documents  MARQUES April 2010 Responses  MARQUES Further Responses
 

The Study was started when the European Commission launched the Tender in July 2009 and the Max Planck Institute was awarded the contract in November 2009. The latest news is that the Max Planck report was published in March 2011. The expected timeline is that stakeholders will give their input to the Commission by early May, that the Commission will present the draft Impact Assessment on the forthcoming proposals to amend the CTMR and TMD by the end of May with a view of having the official adoption of the proposals by the Commission by October 2011.

For more information please see the background documents and the responses tabs and visit:

See also Managing Intellectual Property magazine's topic page:

The trade mark users organisations, including MARQUES and the sister associations AIM, APRAM, BUSINESSEUROPE, CNIPA, ECTA, EFPIA, FICPI, GRUR, ICC, INTA and UNION, have contributed to the works by submitting their observations to the Commission and to Max Planck, incl. participating in a meeting with the Max Planck on 8 June 2010. The organisations will continue to work together to promote the views of their members.

At the 2010 Winter Meeting in Nice the
MARQUES Council created an Ad Hoc "Study Task Force", aimed at following developments, liaising with the Commission, OHIM as well as other stakeholders and drawing up MARQUES observations in connection with the on-going work in relation to the Study.

The "Study Task Force" consists of representatives of member trade mark owners and practitioners, including:

  • Ms. Jane Collins, past Chairman of MARQUES, a member of the Council and the Executive, Global Head of Trademarks at Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Switzerland

  • Ms. Cristina Duch, a member of MARQUES Unfair Competition Team, IP lawyer at Baker & Mackenzie, Spain

  • Ms. Petra Goldenbaum, a member of MARQUES Trade Mark Law and Practice Team, Chief Executive Lawyer of Trademark Department at CMS Hasche Sigle, Germany

  • Ms. Tove Graulund, Chair of the Study Task Force, past Chairman MARQUES, MARQUES honorary member, Director of Graulund IP Services, Denmark

  • Mr. Jochen Hoehfeld, Chair of MARQUES Trade Mark Law and Team, a Partner and Patent and Trademark Attorney at KSNH Patentanwälte Klunker.Schmitt-Nilson.Hirsch, Germany

  • Mr. Till Lampel, Chair of MARQUES Unfair Competition Team, Partner and Attorney at Law at Harmsen . Utescher, Germany

  • Ms. Alessandra Romeo, MARQUES External Relations Officer, a member of the MARQUES Council and Executive, Trade Mark Attorney at Buzzi, Notaro & Antonielli d'Oulx, Italy

  • Mr. David Stone, a member of MARQUES Council, Chair of MARQUES Designs Team, Partner and an IP lawyer at Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom.

  • Ms. Emma Stopford, a member of MARQUES Council and MARQUES Unfair Competition Team, Vice President & Trade Mark Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom


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