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EU Judges Meeting in Amsterdam
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The first MARQUES EU Judges Meeting took place on 18 January, and featured presentations from current and former judges from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Portugal and the UK as well as members of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal and EU General Court
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MARQUES Spring Team Meeting
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Registration for the 17th MARQUES Spring Team Meeting is now open. It will be held at the Hilton Hotel, Apollolaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th March 2019
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Questionnaire on counterfeits
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Petra Herkul, Chair of the MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team, invites MARQUES in-house members to complete a short questionnaire on counterfeiting
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Transposition of EU Trade Mark Directive
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14 January 2019 was the deadline for EU Member States to transpose certain aspects of Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks
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Field Notes from the Outer Borders: BREXIT
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In the latest in its series of Field Notes concerning unusual trade marks, David Fyfield of the IP Emerging Issues Team looks at attempts to register BREXIT as a trade mark
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Latest news from EUIPO
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EUIPO has recently shared news about the expansion of TMview and DesignView, the latest SQAP audit and other developments
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On 28 January 2019 Monaco made its trade mark data available on TMview. It followed Brunei, which made its trade mark and design data available on TMview and DesignView on 23 January. The latest Stakeholder Quality Assurance Panels Project (SQAP) audit took place from 16 to 18 January, with 18 users from nine user associations taking part. These included Roland Mallinson, Bas Kist and Zsófia Judit Klauber on behalf of MARQUES. The Austrian Patent Office (Österreichisches Patentamt, ÖPA) has implemented the Software Package Front Office (SPFO) for the e-filing of trade marks, a tool developed under the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Projects. A number of Decisions and Communications of the Executive Director of EUIPO have been updated, to align them in substance and/or in terminology with the new EUTMR, EUTMDR and EUTMIR. The EUIPO and Japan Patent Office hosted a four-day Trade Mark Experts meeting in Alicante from 28th to 31st January.
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IP Mediation Conference
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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The second IP Mediation Conference is being hosted by the EUIPO Boards of Appeal, the EUIPO Academy and the International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department of EUIPO later this year
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 Make it your New Year Resolution to follow the MARQUES blogs and social media channels, or even to become a MARQUES blogger.
Here’s how you can get involved
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Issue 097
