No fax for EUTM renewals from 1 January 2018
EU trade mark users are reminded that, in accordance with Decision EX-17-4 of the Executive Director of EUIPO, from 1 January 2018 fax will no longer be accepted for filing EUTM applications or renewals except as a backup system if technical malfunctions prevent e-filing.
IP Case Law Conference 2018 – save the date!
Registration will open shortly for the second edition of the IP Case Law Conference. Like the last conference, which took place in 2016, this edition will focus on a variety of selected, essential and relevant legal trade mark and design related topics.
The conference will take place on 7-8 May 2018 at EUIPO’s headquarters in Alicante.
Argentina, Switzerland and Moldova join Designview
As of 20 November 2017, the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI), the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) and the State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI) have made their design data available to the Designview search tool.
With INPI, IPI and AGEPI on board Designview now contains data from 61 participating offices.
With the addition of more than 86,000 designs from INPI, more than 124,000 from IPI and more than 10,000 from AGEPI, Designview provides information and access to more than 12.7 million designs.
Since the introduction of Designview on 19 November 2012 the tool has served more than 3 million searches from 159 different countries, with users from Germany, the UK and Spain among the most frequent users.
Argentina and Moldova join TMview
As of 20 November 2017 the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) and the State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI) have made their trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.
With INPI and AGEPI on board TMview now contains data from 62 participating offices.
With the addition of more than 2.5 million trade marks from INPI and more than 40,000 from AGEPI, TMview provides information and access to more than 47.6 million trade marks in total.
Since the introduction of TMview on 13 April 2010, the tool has served more than 35.7 million searches from 157 different countries, with Spain, Germany and Italy among the most frequent users.