Issue 084
  December 2017
Contents:
 

IP Legal Updates in China - report

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Meet the Judges in Portugal

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Handy guide to notice and take down procedures

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MARQUES review of 2017

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Seasons Greetings from MARQUES

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Webinar on social media

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EU Commission publishes IP initiatives

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Latest news from EUIPO

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Representation of new types of marks

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China tops patent, trade mark and design filings

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Russia ratifies Hague Agreement

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Trade mark changes coming on 1 January 2018

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IP Legal Updates in China - report

 

MARQUES held its first event in Beijing in November. Titled “IP Legal Updates in China”, it featured presentations and discussions involving Chinese judges, lawyers and officials specialising in trade marks

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Meet the Judges in Portugal

 

 

MARQUES held its first Meet the Judges event in Portugal on 6 December, with about 45 people attending the meeting at the Museu do Oriente in Lisbon

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Handy guide to notice and take down procedures

The MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team has published a paper summarising the IP protection procedures available on 30 of the most popular internet platforms and social media sites

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MARQUES review of 2017

 

 


What has MARQUES been doing in 2017? Download and read the annual Achievements List to find out about events, meetings, publications, engagement with IP offices and much more!

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Seasons Greetings from MARQUES

 

Webinar on social media

The MARQUES Secretariat will be closed during the festive period from 1pm on 22 December to 9am on 2 January. We wish Seasons Greetings to all members and their families!

 

MARQUES will be hosting a webinar titled “Social Media Back to Basics: ‘Food’ for Thoughts” on 31 January, starting at 3pm CET/2pm GMT

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EU Commission publishes IP initiatives

 

 

On 29 November the Commission announced a range of measures to ensure that IP rights are well protected, including measures to step up the fight against counterfeiting and piracy

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Latest news from EUIPO


No more faxes; IP Case Law Conference and the latest news on Designview and TMview – here’s all the key developments in the past month from EUIPO


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.

Representation of new types of marks

Robert Guthrie, Chair of the MARQUES European Trade Mark Law and Practice Team, brings news of a Common Communication on the representation of new types of trade marks

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China tops patent, trade mark and design filings

Worldwide demand for IP rights reached record levels in 2016, driven by demand from China, according to the annual WIPO World Intellectual Property Indicators report

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Russia ratifies Hague Agreement

 

Trade mark changes coming on 1 January 2018

The Russian Federation has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs

 

WIPO has announced that Madrid Monitor becomes the only tool for tracking international trade mark applications or registrations, and a new version of the 11th edition of the Nice Classification will enter into force

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