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Interview: MARQUES Chair Antony Douglass
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 Specsavers Legal Director Antony Douglass, who specialises in intellectual property, data protection, marketing and digital strategy, took over as MARQUES Chair during the recent spring meeting in Frankfurt. In this interview, he talks about the role of Chair, his interesting day job and the big challenges brands face today.
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Highlights from the Spring Meeting
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 More than 150 Council and Team members attended the MARQUES Spring Meeting in Frankfurt on 1 and 2 March
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Book now for webinar on design case law
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 The MARQUES Designs Team will host a webinar on EU design law on Wednesday 3 May from 15.00 to 16.30 CET
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The webinar is titled "EU Design Law: Front Kit, Monz, Paper Dispenser – what the most recent ECJ rulings mean in practice". You can book your place here. It is organised by the Designs Team's Case Law Task Force and will be presented by Eva Maierski of Lubberger Lehment in Germany and Hanna Held of Held IP in Germany. Topics covered will include the visibility requirement for parts of a complex product, the protectability of designs having a technical function as well as the protection of component parts of unregistered Community designs. The webinar will also give a brief update on the status of the EU design law reform and on possible changes to jurisdiction that the reform may bring. Registration is €100 (MARQUES members) or €135 (non-members) and can be made on the MARQUES website now. The picture shows the design in the Monz case, which will be discussed during the webinar
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Question the Trade Mark Judges
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 On 7 March, UCL-IBIL and MARQUES hosted the latest “Question the Trade Mark Judges” event in London. The Q&A panel discussion covered various timely issues in EU and UK trade mark law and procedure
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Practical guides published
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AI against counterfeits
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The MARQUES Brands and Marketing Team has published two new documents: a Basic Introduction to Web3 presentation and a paper on social media impersonation
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As part of its ongoing project on AI and IP, the MARQUES Cyberspace Team has prepared a paper looking at how AI-powered solutions can help in the fight against counterfeiting
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From the Observatory
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 In their regular update, Petra Herkul, Maria Cecilia Romoleroux and Sonia Santos of the MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team summarise recent news from the EUIPO Observatory, EMPACT and the European Commission
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WIPO reports annual IP data
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MARQUES joins EUIPO User Group Meeting
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 Use of the international trade mark system fell by 6.1% in 2022, but the number of designs included in international applications under the Hague System increased by 11.2%, according to figures published by WIPO
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 European Union Intellectual Property Office (@EU_IPO) _ Twitter.png) The EUIPO User Group Meeting took place in Alicante during the week of 27 March. This was the 34th meeting since they began in 1998.
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Trade mark and design judgments in March
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The CJEU has published its opinion in a case concerning design rights, and the EU General Court has delivered several interesting judgments in cases concerning EUTMs and RCDs
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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 The MARQUES blogs include reports on cases and legal developments as well as news from MARQUES Teams. Sign up for notifications so you don’t miss out!
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Issue 147
