• The ‘Registro Nacional’ of Costa Rica aligns with CP6

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8869034 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The ‘Registro Nacional’ of Costa Rica (RN) has just published a Practice Paper concerning the graphic representation of industrial designs.

     
  • Namibia joins TMclass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8839308 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 13 August 2021, the Namibian Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) will be included in TMclass. BIPA will join with the alphabetical list of the Nice classification.

     
  • Trade mark database for Andean Community

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8830994 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. A new database has been launched to provide access to trade mark data from the Andean Community countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

     
  • European Cooperation: Malta implements technological improvements in e-Filing and e-Services within the cloud

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8825274 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Commerce Department of the Government of Malta (CD-IPRD), with the support of the EUIPO’s European cooperation project ECP1, has improved the electronic services available for its users. It did... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: Mykonos becomes Greece’s second ‘Authenticity’

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8823911 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. Following last year’s certification of Thessaloniki, on 23 July 2021 the Municipality of Mykonos became the second Greek Authenticity to join the growing European Network of Authenticities.

     
  • Philippines to use the harmonised database in TMclass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8816930 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 28 July 2021, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) uses and accepts the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in... Continue reading

     
  • 1 million digitised trade marks and designs: the ECP5 project

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8809984 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The 1 million digitised files milestone was achieved on 7 July 2021 at the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH). The total number of digitised pages stands now at approximately 18 million.

     
  • Honduras joins TMclass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8799170 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 14 July 2021, the General Directorate of Intellectual Property of Honduras (DIGEPIH) will be included in TMclass.

     
  • Malta is the first EU country to join the IP Register in Blockchain

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8793606 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 1 July the Industrial Property Registrations Directorate (IPRD) of the Maltese Commerce Department installed an IP Register in Blockchain node and transferred 60 000 records to TMview and DesignView through a... Continue reading

     
  • Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join TMclass

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8793087 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. As of 12 July 2021, the Trinidad and Tobago Intellectual Property Office (TTIPO) and the Commerce and Intellectual Property Office of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (CIPO-VC) will be included... Continue reading