Issue 087
  March 2018
Contents:
 

Teams provide update on work at Spring Meeting

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Joint Statement on Brexit

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Hague Agreement seminar in Copenhagen

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Latest news from the MARQUES ACPT Team

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News from Alicante

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WIPO shares 2017 statistics

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No more faxes at Madrid Registry

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Hague System updates

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Beijing AIC targets trade mark infringement

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Upcoming events

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MARQUES Media Roundup

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Teams provide update on work at Spring Meeting

 

More than 150 people attended the annual Spring Team Meeting, held this year at the Gran Hotel Miramar in Malaga, Spain from 8 to 9 March

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Joint Statement on Brexit

 

 

MARQUES – along with AIM, APRAM, BMM, CITMA, ECTA and INTA – has sent a Joint Statement to the EU Commission’s Brexit team regarding the negotiations concerning the exit of the UK particularly with regard to trade marks and designs

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Hague Agreement seminar in Copenhagen

 

 

The latest in the MARQUES series of events “Mastering the Hague Agreement”, organised in collaboration with WIPO, was presented in Copenhagen on 15 March

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Latest news from the MARQUES ACPT Team

 

Petra Herkul of DSM became chair of the MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team in March, succeeding Diana Versteeg of AkzoNobel. She spoke to HouseMARQUES about the Team’s current activities and plans, in particular its engagement with the EU Observatory

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News from Alicante

 

MARQUES members may be interested in these updates from EUIPO in Alicante

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WIPO shares 2017 statistics

 

 

 

 

According to information published by WIPO on 21 March, there were 56,200 trade mark applications via the Madrid System last year, an increase of 5% on 2016. The Organization has also published details of UDRP cases heard during 2017

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No more faxes at Madrid Registry

 

Hague System updates

Effective from 1 April, the Madrid Registry will no longer process documents and requests received by fax

 

The UK is joining the Hague System. Plus: get an access code for e-filing

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Beijing AIC targets trade mark infringement

According to China Industry & Commerce News, in the first quarter of 2018, Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce (Beijing AIC) and its sub-AICs carried out a campaign, which lasted for one month, targeted at trade mark infringement. Teresa Yuan Tian reports

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Upcoming events

 

MARQUES Media Roundup

The deadline for registration for the EUIPO Case Law Conference has been extended to 13 April. Plus: details of planned MARQUES events

 

 

The MARQUES blogs are packed with the latest news and analysis on case law, legislative developments and other news relating to trade marks and designs

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Read Class 46 and Class 99 online, sign up for the email alerts or contact the editor if you are interested in contributing posts.

Recent posts include:

Doceram - CJEU pin down design functionality (Class 99)

The eagerly-awaited (by readers of this blog, anyway) CJEU decision in the reference in Case C-395/16 Doceram v Ceramtech (ceramic weld-centering pins) issued this morning - our thanks to Lynne Chave for spotting it. It is not the end of the issue, nor even the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

The judgment follows the existing EUIPO case law (R 690/2007-3 Lindner v Franssens, Chaff Cutters) insofar as it does not regard the "multiplicity of forms" test as decisive, but only follows it that far. It rejects the two troubling aspects of Lindner, namely the "independent observer" test (which as a matter of practice was liable to lay the whole question open to the opinion of the tribunal) and the references to "aesthetics".

Read more here.

Crocs – one more bite at the cherry (Class 99)

Another twist in the bizarre Crocs EUIPO litigation concerning the design of the legendarily ugly plastic clogs, which began on 31 July 2006 and looks still to be running.  The author has to declare an interest, having been involved in the proceedings around that date (though not since) on the other side from Crocs.

Read more here.

Warning over fees in Venezuela (Class 46)

In January this year, the Government of Venezuela published a revised Exchange Agreement. It sets out the new foreign currency system base which must be used to calculate and pay official fees at public authorities. This obviously includes fees paid at the national IP Office.

Read more here.

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