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Latest news on OHIM website
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 MARQUES has been actively monitoring the difficulties arising from the launch of the new OHIM website.
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HouseMARQUES interview: Lee Grosskreuz Hechtel
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 Lee Grosskreuz Hechtel is deputy general counsel of NBTY and chair of the MARQUES Regulatory Team. She talks to James Nurton about nutraceuticals, plain packaging – and Airedale terriers.
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Update on EU trade mark reform
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 MARQUES’ EU Trademark Reform Task Force has published comments on the latest plans for European trade mark reform.
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Find out about the OHIM Observatory
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New CTM and RCD examination guidelines
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The OHIM Observatory now has its own website and recently distributed its first newsletter.
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OHIM recently published new examination guidelines for Community trade marks and registered Community designs, which come into effect on 1st February.
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Design Liaisons Meeting in Alicante
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MARQUES was invited to attend the 12th Liaison Meeting on Design held in Alicante on 25th and 26th November 2013. The two vice-chairs of MARQUES’ Designs Team, Sebastian Fischoeder and Robert Stutz, participated.
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IP Outer Borders Team publishes fair use report
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 The IP Outer Borders Team has been surveying trade mark practitioners throughout the world regarding the intersection of trade marks and freedom of speech, including parody, art, personal and political expression or simply comparative advertising.
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China trade mark flowcharts updated
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 For the past 12 months, the China Team has been working on flowcharts on the PRC trade mark prosecution and opposition procedures, cancellation proceeding and civil litigation.
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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: How can a philosophy be hidden in a trade mark?
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Coming soon: Coexistence Workshop in Zurich
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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The next MARQUES Coexistence Agreement Workshop will be held in Zurich on 5th February.
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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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It will be conducted in German. The objective will be to sensitise participants to the commercial and legal issues that arise when the potential conflict of two or more businesses with similar brands and trade marks may be avoided by negotiating a prior rights agreement (coexistence agreement).
Location: Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Forchstrasse 452 Zürich Switzerland
Cost: €25
Click here for more details including programme and online registration
Other dates to note this year:
UK Judges Meeting, 15th October, London
Finland Judges Meeting, 13th November, Helsinki
Further details of both events will be available on the MARQUES website in due course.
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Issue 037
