Issue 050
  February 2015
Contents:
 

Five takeaways from the recent MARQUES-WIPO meeting

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United States and Japan join the Hague System

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Planning the future for geographical indications

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TM5 agree ID List Project and dedicated search tool

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Harmonised Database of Goods and Services update

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Field Notes: Gesture trade marks

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Upcoming MARQUES events

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MARQUES Media Roundup

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Five takeaways from the recent MARQUES-WIPO meeting

Uwe Over of Henkel, First Vice-Chair of the MARQUES Council, has described a recent meeting between MARQUES representatives and WIPO officials as “very fruitful and satisfying”, and set out five topics for future work.

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United States and Japan join the Hague System

The United States of America and Japan have joined the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, bringing membership in the Hague System to 64 contracting parties. Members of the MARQUES Designs Team welcome the news.

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Planning the future for geographical indications

A recent conference looked at the lessons learned from a consultation on geographical indications for non-agricultural products. Miguel Angel Medina, outgoing Chair of the GI Team and a member of the MARQUES Council, attended the meeting and provides a report.

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TM5 agree ID List Project and dedicated search tool


The TM5 partners reached agreement on several trade mark and design initiatives at their meeting held in Japan last December.


Notably, the five offices agreed the TM5 ID List Project, an effort to create a database of pre-approved identifications/terms for trade mark classification purposes, which will be accepted by the five partners.

The TM5 partners are the IP offices of the US, Japan, Korea, China and EU (OHIM).

The TM5 ID List Search Tool includes a list of about 14,000 pre-approved identifications/terms for classification that will be accepted by all of the TM5 offices. In practice, besides the already existing TMClass and WIPO’s Madrid G&S Manager, users can now also rely on this TM5 ID-List classification tool.

More details about the TM5 ID List are available in a statement published by the JPO. The tool can be accessed via the TM5 ID List featured by TMClass.

In addition, the TM5 is looking into a search image project. The Cooperation Fund project Search Image was halted due to technical challenges which could not be overcome. However the SAIC (China) and JPO (Japan) have proposed resuming that project in the context of TM5 cooperation.

Finally, the TM5 are discussing a proposal to improve user involvement. This is something that MARQUES, along with other users associations, has promoted.

More information about the TM5 is available on its website. The Joint Statement on the agreements reached at the recent meeting is expected to be published there soon.

MARQUES may follow up on some of these developments during the bilateral meeting with OHIM being held in Alicante next month, following the MARQUES Spring Meeting.

Information courtesy of TM5 and OHIM.

Harmonised Database of Goods and Services update

All EU IP offices have now joined the Harmonised Database of Goods and Services, after France’s INPI signed up on 2nd February.

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Field Notes: Gesture trade marks

Gesture trade marks have appealed to everyone from banks to sports stars. Sasha Mandakovic Falconi files the latest Field Notes report from the IP Outer Borders Team

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Upcoming MARQUES events

 

MARQUES Media Roundup

Events are scheduled in Buenos Aires, Zurich, Vienna and The Hague. Which ones will you attend?

 

Recent posts on the MARQUES blogs include a recent design decision in The Hague, a BOIP ruling on national costume and an (im)possible dispute in Finland.

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