Keen readers of the MARQUES Class 46 weblog may have spotted that last week, in the course of the MARQUES Conference (which you can read all about on blogposts here, here, here and here, thanks to the wonderful Laetitia Lagarde), we reached a new milestone.  It has taken a few years and a lot of blogposts, but Class 46 has now welcomed it's 5,000th email subscriber. Thanks so much to all the blogteam members for their support, to the MARQUES secretariat for its logistical back-up and, of course, to all our readers!

While we're on the subject, the Class 46 blog team is always on the lookout for fresh talent. If you are a MARQUES member and enjoy writing about European trade mark and branding issues, do please contact Class 46 via the MARQUES secretariat by email to info@marques.org so that we can see how much use we can make of you (if you'd like to write about designs rather than trade marks, we have a blog for that too, the Class 99 blog. Again, volunteers are warmly welcomed).

Still on the subject of social media, MARQUES has a LinkedIn discussion group which enjoys the support of over 4,100 members. It's open to anyone with a sincere interest in trade mark and brand issues in Europe -- and it's moderated, which means that we keep it free of advertisements, recruitment notices and recycled law firm newsletter articles. You can follow what's being posted on the LinkedIn Group and the blogs if you follow us on Twitter.

Finally MARQUES has a Facebook page, which you can check out here.  Hope you like it!