• European Cooperation: visual search for TMview extended to Denmark

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8490220 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 18 December 2020, the Danish Patent and Trademark Office Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) has made its trade mark images available to TMview visual search tool. TMview’s visual... Continue reading

     
  • Public consultation now open: EU geographical indications scheme

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8485399 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The European Commission has launched a public consultation inviting citizens and organisations as well as national and regional public authorities to contribute to the assessment of how to strengthen the... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: OSIM enhances its front and back-office systems

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8482441 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Roanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM) has enhanced its front-office and back-office applications with added capabilities.

     
  • European cooperation: new online services in Bulgaria

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8479267 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria (BPO), with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Service, has improved the service it provides to its users with the launch... Continue reading

     
  • Norway enhances its participation in TMclass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8477265 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 20 January 2021, the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO) has enhanced its participation in TMclass. From this day, NIPO will use and accept the terms from the harmonised... Continue reading

     
  • State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI) now aligned with CP5

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8463501 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI) has published Practice Paper: Likelihood of confusion (impact of non-distinctive/weak components) relative grounds of refusal.

     
  • European Cooperation: Sofia and Plovdiv join the European Network of ‘Authenticities’

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8462276 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 18 November 2020 and 22 December 2020, under the framework of the European Cooperation Project (ECP8) ‘European Network of Authenticities’, the municipalities of Sofia and Plovdiv became the first certified Bulgarian... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: new online services in Greece

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8400925 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Industrial Property Organisation in Greece (OBI), with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Service, has improved the service it provides to its users with the launch of a... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: new online service at the Austrian Patent Office

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8399115 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Austrian Patent Office (ÖPA – Österreichisches Patentamt) has launched a new ‘Trade Mark Opposition’ eService, a modern online service for trade marks.

     
  • First GI registration in ARIPO supported by EUIPO

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8388589 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 23 November, Mozambique officially launched the newly created geographical indication (GI) Cabrito de Tete, which is the first GI registered in ARIPO (African Regional Intellectual Property Organization).