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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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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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Class 46 and Class 99
Battle of the Protans - German Federal Patent Court
General Court: Green colours and nature of trade mark
EU fine-tunes more GI specs
Plenty of design freedom for corkscrews, rules Court
MARQUES LinkedIn discussions
WIPO GREEN: what does this initiative mean to brand owners?
Can someone share the names of countries that do not recognize trademark co-existence agreements?
Can OHIM issue a Re-Examination for a CTM after the mark has been published? MARQUES_IP on twitter
Finnish Olympic Committee battles to register OLYMPIALAISET ("Olympic Games") as a word mark. Tiina Komppa reports http://tinyurl.com/qexvboa
Danes impose personal liability on director and sole proprietor of TM-infringing company http://tinyurl.com/olddj3n
Now here's a surprise. In a Europe in which GIs are sprouting like dandelions, one has actually been cancelled http://tinyurl.com/q6o57yv MARQUES Facebook page
Posts on Lambretta, a wolf logo and SolarGrid among others
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Issue 035
