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The HouseMARQUES interview: Ingrid De Groot
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 MARQUES Internal Relations Officer Ingrid De Groot talks about her role and about managing the MARQUES website as Web Content Manager, picks out some of her highlights from the past 10 years and explains why her job sometimes requires diplomacy.
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Field Notes from the Outer Borders
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The IP Outer Borders Team collects and reports on unusual trade marks from around the globe. This month: the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra creates a sound logo.
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The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the oldest and most reputed classic orchestra of the city of Hamburg, Germany, has created a special sound mark celebrating the orchestra’s deep relationship with the city and its culture. This unique logo was inspired by the reflection of Hamburg skyline in the Alster River. The reflected skyline was converted into a sound wave pattern in the first step by using a technology called sonification. Composer Thomas Suess then transformed the sound wave into classical musical notation and created an arrangement for appropriate instruments. The Hamburg Philharmoniker then performed the composition, and the Hamburg skyline was transmuted into sound. To hear the orchestra’s sound logo, visit http://vimeo.com/23688740.
The use of sounds to identify the source of goods and services is fairly popular, but not all jurisdictions permit sounds to be registered as marks. The US Patent and Trademark Office, which has long permitted registration of soundmarks, provides a representative collection at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/soundmarks/. In Europe, registration of sound marks is on the rise. In October 2013, the OHIM register listed more than 200 applications or registrations for sound marks for the European Community (choose “sound” in the trade mark type field at http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_Result_NoReg). We did not find an application to register the Hamburg Skyline sound logo as yet. Björn Bahlmann, Boehmert & Boehmert, member of the IP Outer Borders Team
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WIPO SCT – Designs Team report
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German Design Act modernised
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 MARQUES participated in the 30th meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) in November 2013 in Geneva. Peter Gustav Olson from MAQS Law Firm in Copenhagen represented MARQUES.
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With the new German Design Act, which will enter into force on January 1, 2014, a number of significant changes and new innovations will come into force.
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Common Communication on class headings
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 OHIM's Common Communication on the Common Practice on the General Indications of the Nice Class Headings was published on 20th November.
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New common practice on B&W marks
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 Under a new common practice endorsed by the OHIM Administrative Board on 19th November 2013, black and white marks no longer automatically cover all colours.
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OHIM perceptions survey published
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New OHIM website launched
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Nine out of 10 Europeans have not bought counterfeit products or downloaded illegally in the past 12 months, according to a report on perceptions of IP published by OHIM in November
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 OHIM’s new website was launched on 2nd December.
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WIPO report examines brands
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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Investment in branding comes to nearly $0.5 trillion a year, exceeding investments on R&D and design, according to WIPO’s latest World Intellectual Property Report, published in November.
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 Follow twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and the blogs Class 46 and Class 99 for the latest news and debate around trade marks.
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Issue 035
