• Chile joins TMclass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5436628 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 25 November 2019, the National Institute of Industrial Property Office of Chile (INAPI) has joined TMclass with the latest version of the Nice classification.

     
  • European Cooperation: the Estonian Patent Office digitises 55,000 dossiers

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5420437 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Estonian Patent Office (EPA) has implemented the European Cooperation project ‘ECP5: Capture and Store Historical Files’.

     
  • CP3 extension to the Republic of Serbia

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5419119 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia (IPORS) has included the principles of the Common Practice in relation to figurative marks containing descriptive or non-distinctive words (CP3) in... Continue reading

     
  • Ecuador joins DesignView

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5412360 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 11 November 2019, Ecuador’s National Service of Intellectual Rights (SENADI) has made its design data available to the DesignView search tool.

     
  • Argentina joins TMclass, Peru joins DesignClass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5399308 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 04 November 2019, the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) joined TMclass, and will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database (HDB)... Continue reading

     
  • Liechtenstein joins TMview

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5375394 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 21 October 2019, the Bureau of Intellectual Property within the Office of Economic Affairs of the Principality of Liechtenstein (AVW) has made its trade mark data available to... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: Transposition of Trade Mark Directive Malta

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5372578 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Maltese Commerce Department (IPRD), responsible for Industrial Property in Malta, has launched an updated version of their software to address the various changes required to comply with the transposition... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: improved e-filing in Bulgaria

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5369368 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) has successfully implemented a set of improvements to their e-filing system.

     
  • European Cooperation: enhanced back office for Greek Trademark Office

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5366998 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Greek Trademark Office (GGE), with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Projects, has implemented an enhanced back office system on 30 September 2019.

     
  • European Cooperation: Slovenian SIPO launches Project Management Office

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/5365937 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), with the support of EUIPO’s European Cooperation Projects and within the framework of the ‘ECP5 Project Management Certification for IP Offices’ project, recently became... Continue reading