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Sign up now for Hague Agreement seminar in London
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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European Commission gives notice that .eu TLD will no longer apply to UK after Brexit
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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
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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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The Blockathon will bring together specialists in law, IP rights, anti-counterfeiting, track and trace, ecosystem dynamics, logistics and security to support the 10 selected teams. The total prize to be awarded is €100,000. Teams had until 30 April to apply online. More details are in the announcement from the EU Observatory: The Observatory is pleased to announce that the Blockathon competition has been launched on 26 March, with the publication of dedicated web pages www.blockathon.eu and promotion on various social media channels, and in media as well as towards the Blockchain Community. The Blockathon, first collaborative blockchain competition in relation to intellectual property organised in partnership with the European Commission and scheduled to take place from 22 to 25 June 2018 in the emblematic Autoworld Museum in Brussels, is part of the Observatory work programme 2018. Its success will essentially rely on its capacity to attract the best teams and recruit relevant participants that want to make an impact toward co-creating the next level anti-counterfeiting infrastructure on blockchain. The competition will be attractive for the blockchain community and for participants if it can showcase the involvement of the anti-counterfeiting community, namely relevant stakeholders, private, public, civil society as well as policy makers.
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Field Notes from the Outer Borders: Petaloso
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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
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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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
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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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Issue 088
