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MARQUES Chair Uwe Over – a video interview
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MARQUES Chair Uwe Over took a few minutes during the Annual Conference in Villaitana to discuss MARQUES activities and achievements, reflect on his term as chair, and comment on IP trends and hot issues
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IR challenges addressed at MARQUES seminars
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MARQUES hosted three seminars on International Registrations and US designations last month, featuring presentations from WIPO and the USPTO as well as local trade mark specialists
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What you need to know about the Enforcement Database
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In the workshop that took place on 22nd September during the MARQUES Annual Conference in Alicante, Blanca Arteche, Heike Schulz and Miguel Fayos gave attendees their points of view regarding the Enforcement Database (EDB) platform. Sonia Santos reports
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Scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting
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An Observatory report estimates €10.2 billion in lost revenue each year across the EU due to counterfeit pharmaceuticals. MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team reports
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Brazil set to join Madrid Protocol
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Update from WIPO on Nice Classification
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The Brazilian government has made a commitment that the country will join the international trade mark system by mid-2018
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The Committee of Experts has approved the 11th Edition of Nice Classification, which will come into effect on 1st January 2017
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WIPO posted the following information on 22nd November: On January 1, 2017 the latest edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of Registration of Marks (Nice Classification) will enter into force. The 11th edition of the Nice Classification will introduce 334 new terms, and amendments to fifteen class headings and 22 Explanatory Notes. The majority of the amendments arise from a joint proposal submitted by Japan, Switzerland, the United States, the European Union Intellectual Property Office and WIPO. WIPO will apply the 11th edition of the Nice Classification to all applications for international registration received by an Office of Origin on or after January 1, 2017. However, WIPO will not reclassify the list of goods and services under international registrations affected by renewals, subsequent designations or other changes filed after December 31, 2016. The list of goods and services relating to international registration affected by any change filed after December 31, 2016 will not be reclassified. To further assist users in complying with the changes, WIPO’s Madrid Goods & Services Manager will be updated in the database’s 18 languages. More information about the Nice Classification and the Madrid System is available on WIPO’s website
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Trade marks in Africa – an update
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A new paper by the International Trade Mark Law & Practice Team, available on the MARQUES website, provides a guide to trade marks across Africa. Mariëtte du Plessis and Stephen Hollis introduce the key points. (Click on the map to see a larger version.)
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The pluses and minuses of licensing your brand
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In the second in a series of articles discussing various aspects of licensing brands, members of the MARQUES IAM Team discuss the disadvantages of brand exploitation through licensing and what a brand licensor should always consider before venturing on a licence journey
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Luxury Brand Symposium and other events
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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 MARQUES will host its second Luxury Brand Symposium in Hong Kong on 16th and 17th March 2017
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Do you read MARQUES blogs and social media? If not, this is some of what you have missed!
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Issue 071
