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Teams provide update on work at Spring Meeting
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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
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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
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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
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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
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MARQUES members may be interested in these updates from EUIPO in Alicante
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A User Group Meeting took place on 22 March, at which MARQUES was represented. EUIPO presented the preliminary outline and scope of the CP11 Convergence Project “Examination of formal requirements and grounds for refusal of new types of marks”. There will be a questionnaire on this topic available next month. Recent international cooperation activities include a visit to the Indian Office of the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks by a technical team from EUIPO in February. This aimed to enhance the trade marks and designs e-filing systems to harmonise with European standards. EUIPO also received a visit from a delegation from the Industrial Property Protection Directorate of Jordan in February, to perform technical work for the integration of the Jordan IP Office into TMview and DesignView. EUIPO is creating an html version of its Guidelines, which are currently only available in PDF format. A pilot showcasing a subset of the Trade Mark Guidelines provides an idea of what the final product will look like. The pilot is a work in progress, but when finished it should provide easier navigation, a better search and easy comparison of different editions. Details of the Academy Tuesday webinars for April have been announced and can be viewed on the event calendar. The IP Course for Paralegals takes place from 18 to 20 April in Alicante.
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WIPO shares 2017 statistics
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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
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Hague System updates
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Effective from 1 April, the Madrid Registry will no longer process documents and requests received by fax
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 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
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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
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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 The deadline for registration for the EUIPO Case Law Conference has been extended to 13 April. Plus: details of planned MARQUES events
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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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Issue 087
