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.

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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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Slightly amended designs lack individual character

Registering new (Community) designs for small product design improvements/amendments can be quite tricky, as shown again by a decision of the interim relief judge of the court in The Hague, 20 February, 2015 (Koz Products BV v Adinco BV).

Read more: http://www.marques.org/class99/Default.asp?XID=BHA633

National costume distinctive as folklore though not as trade mark for local sweets

In opposition proceedings before the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP), Inter-Noba B.V. (Inter-Noba) opposes the registration of JB Diesch B.V.’s (JB Diesch) Benelux trade mark in class 30, to be used particularly for well-known local sweets from the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands called ‘boterbabbelaars’ (tasting somewhere between butterscotch and toffee). These sweets are typically sold in packaging bearing pictures of Zeelandic folklore such as girls wearing national costume. Inter-Noba B.V. is the holder of a Benelux trade mark registered in class 30 and used for botterbabbelaars. The marks in issue are pictured below.

Read more: http://www.marques.org/class46/Default.asp?XID=BHA4018

MISSION (IM)POSSIBLE in Finland

The Market Court in Finland gave a decision in September 2014 (MAO: 646/14) in a trade mark dispute between Paramount Pictures Corporation and a Finnish company Rautakesko Oy, which ran a building, renovation and home improvement products and services business. The dispute proceeded from the Board of Appeal of the Finnish Trade Mark Office to the Market Court after the Trade Mark Office rejected Paramount’s challenge to the registration of the trade mark MISSION POSSIBLE.

Read more: http://www.marques.org/class46/Default.asp?XID=BHA4015

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