• JIPO and CarIPI together mark World IP Day 2021

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8662588 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On the occasion of World IP Day (26 April), the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) and the EU-funded CarIPI project are organising the IP Week ‘IP & MSMEs: Taking your... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: Lithuania enhances its back office system

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8659813 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 (SPB) has successfully implemented new functionalities into its back office system.

     
  • EUIPN Annual Cooperation Meeting 2021

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8656650 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN) Annual Cooperation Meeting was held online on 21-22 April 2021.

     
  • European Cooperation: enhanced Back Office system at the SPTO

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8655863 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 5 April 2021 the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO)  completed the implementation of a new set of improvements to its Back Office system for Designs. These were implemented with... Continue reading

     
  • European Cooperation: Enhanced Back Office goes live in Greece

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8652481 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI) has improved its Back Office system, with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Projects (ECP2).

     
  • Publication of CP11 Common Communication

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8639477 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The CP11 Common Practice on ‘New types of marks: Examination of formal requirements and grounds for refusal’ was adopted by the Management Board by written procedure in October 2020

     
  • EUIPO-SIPO meeting

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8632877 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The Executive Director of the EUIPO, Christian Archambeau, and Dr Vojko Toman, the Director of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), met online on 8 April 2021.

     
  • EUIPO – IP Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan meeting

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8628818 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. On 6 April, the Executive Director of the EUIPO and the Director of the National Institute of Intellectual Property of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KAZPATENT), Mr Yerbol Ospanov, have signed... Continue reading

     
  • Publication of CP12 Common Communication

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8618642 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. After being unanimously adopted by the Management Board of the EUIPO in November 2020, the CP12 Common Practice/Recommendations on ‘Evidence in trade mark appeal proceedings’ has now been published across the EU.

     
  • Georgian IP Office now aligned with CP10

    https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/guest/news/-/action/view/8618491 Content Reproduced verbatim from the Website of the European Union(EU) Intellectual Property Office as permitted under their Terms of Use. The National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (Sakpatenti) has published a practice paper on the criteria for assessing the disclosure of designs on the internet and to provide recommendations thereof.