Issue 088
  April 2018
Contents:
 

Sign up now for Hague Agreement seminar in London

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New: Expert talk with Serbian trade mark judges

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Webinar on social media and marketplaces

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MARQUES attends Anti-Scam Network meeting in Alicante

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GDPR and the future of WHOIS

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Federal Circuit addresses scandalous/offensive marks

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Blockathon to be held in June

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European Commission gives notice that .eu TLD will no longer apply to UK after Brexit

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Field Notes from the Outer Borders: Petaloso

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Afghanistan joins Madrid Protocol

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MARQUES Media Roundup

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Sign up now for Hague Agreement seminar in London

 


The next MARQUES/WIPO seminar on Mastering The Hague Agreement will take place in London on Monday 18 June. That is just five days after the Hague Agreement comes into effect for the UK so it will be a very timely event for design law practitioners!

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New: Expert talk with Serbian trade mark judges

 

 

The first MARQUES Judges Meeting in Serbia will take place on 31 May 2018. It will be held at the Intellectual Property Office in Belgrade, starting at 09.15

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Webinar on social media and marketplaces

 

 

Did you miss “Social Media and Marketplaces back to basics: ...'Food' for thoughts” on 29 March? Don’t worry: you can now watch the webinar, and download the presentations

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MARQUES attends Anti-Scam Network meeting in Alicante

 


The 3rd Anti-Scam Network meeting was held at EUIPO in Alicante on 19 April. It was attended by representatives of EUIPO, EPO and WIPO, most IP offices in Europe and user associations. MARQUES was represented by Willem Leppink, Chair of the Anti-Fraud Task Force

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GDPR and the future of WHOIS

Brand owners and law enforcement agencies are amongst many who rely upon WHOIS to provide information on the registrants of domain names of concern because they infringe rights or support abusive content. Ashley Roberts and Nick Wood report

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Federal Circuit addresses scandalous/offensive marks

 

Robert J Kenney discusses the recent decision In re Brunetti; free speech; and the registration of scandalous and offensive trade marks in the United States

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Blockathon to be held in June

 

European Commission gives notice that .eu TLD will no longer apply to UK after Brexit

EUIPO and the European Commission are hosting the Blockathon in Brussels from 22 to 25 June to join the alliance against fake products and to co-create the next level of anti-counterfeiting infrastructure

 


EURid, registry operator for .eu for the European Union, has been told to prepare to delete over 300,000 .eu domains owned by registrants based in the UK when the UK leaves the European Union on 30 March 2019. Clare Grimley and Nick Wood provide more information

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Field Notes from the Outer Borders: Petaloso

In the latest in its series of Field Notes concerning unusual trade marks, Nicoletta Galizia of the IP Emerging Issues Team looks at the race to register trade marks for a new Italian word

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Afghanistan joins Madrid Protocol

 

MARQUES Media Roundup


WIPO has announced that the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan deposited its instrument of accession to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks on 26 March 2018

 

It’s been a bumper month on the MARQUES blogs, with reports on important cases, legislative developments and events. Here are some highlights

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AG Opinion in EUTM KitKat case published

Advocate General Wathelet last week gave his Opinion in Joined Cases C‑84/17 P, C‑85/17 P and C‑95/17 P. This is the dispute between Société des produits Nestlé SA and Mondelez UK Holdings & Services Ltd concerning Nestlé’s application to register a three-dimensional mark for its KitKat four fingers product in 2006. Mondelez opposed the application in 2007…

Read more on Class 46: https://www.marques.org/class46/Default.asp?XID=BHA4629

Facelift doesn't necessarily create individual character

We like to refresh things. Designers and producers like to refresh classic products hoping to receive "new old" designs, although it doesn't mean that such facelift helps in crossing the red line between creating on an informed user an impression of a different individual character of a product and lack of such impression. This problem is particularly vital in automotive industry.

Read more on Class 99: https://www.marques.org/class99/Default.asp?XID=BHA842

Mexico’s opposition system two years on

Almost two years after its creation, the trade mark opposition procedure in Mexico has not had the expected success, and the procedure itself holds significant risk of unpleasant surprises for the brand owners…

Read more on Class 46: https://www.marques.org/class46/Default.asp?XID=BHA4626

Finnish Market Court judgment in Volkswagen AG v Vannetukku.fi Oy

The Market Court of Finland (MAO) handed down its judgment on 9 March 2018 regarding design infringement of wheel rims in Volkswagen AG v Vannetukku.fi Oy (MAO:141/18).

The German automotive manufacturing company Volkswagen AG (Volkswagen or VW) had filed a design infringement claim with the Market Court against a Finnish tyre and wheel rim seller vannetukku.fi Oy (Vannetukku). The case concerned the illustrated wheel rims…

Read more: https://www.marques.org/class99/Default.asp?XID=BHA840

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