• Saint Kitts and Nevis will use HDB

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8783554 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 5 July 2021, the Intellectual Property Office of Saint Kitts and Nevis (IPOSKN) will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and... Continue reading

     
  • DNPI Uruguay now aligned with CP5

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8765827 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The National Directorate of Industrial Property under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay (DNPI) has published a practice paper today on the impact of non-distinctive/weak components of... Continue reading

     
  • GDIP Albania now aligned with CP3

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8765814 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP) under the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Albania has published a practice paper on the examination of absolute grounds... Continue reading

     
  • Economic performance of IPR indicators: March 2021 update

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8751363 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. In May 2021 the EUIPO presented “The economic impact of COVID-19 crisis on IPR-intensive industries” with data until December 2020, including indicators for all intellectual property rights (IPR), trade marks... Continue reading

     
  • DNPI Uruguay now aligned with CP6

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8729331 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The National Directorate of Industrial Property under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay (DNPI) has published a Practice Paper concerning the graphic representation of industrial designs.

     
  • European Cooperation: The Estonian Patent Office (EPA) implements the Common Tools Integration (CTI)

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8728899 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 13 May the Estonian Patent Office (EPA) implemented the Common Tools Integration (CTI) tool as part of the ’Major Improvements to TMview and DesignView’ project.

     
  • European cooperation: kick-off media events in the ‘Authenticities’ of Sofia and Plovdiv

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8728330 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Under the framework of the European Cooperation Projects, in particular ECP8 ‘European Network of Authenticities’, the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria (BPO) and the municipalities of Plovdiv and... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: IP User Repository in Lithuania

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8725190 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania (VPB) has become the first office to implement the European Cooperation Project ‘IP User Repository (IPUR)’. The implementation in VPB took... Continue reading

     
  • Albania joins DESIGNClass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8724000 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 31 May 2021, the General Directorate of Industrial Property of Albania (GDIP) is part of DESIGNclass and will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised... Continue reading

     
  • CP13 and CP14 approved by the Management Board

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8686918 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 5 May, the first two convergence projects of the EUIPO’s Strategic Plan 2025, CP13 – ‘Trade mark applications made in bad faith’ and CP14 – ‘Trade marks contrary to... Continue reading