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Book now for MARQUES autumn events
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 The next Coexistence Agreement Workshop will be held in Bucharest, Romania on Wednesday 10th September. Booking is also now open for Meet the Judges in Vienna, Austria on Friday 17th October.
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Everything you need to know about environmental labelling
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How do you certify that a product or service is environmentally friendly? Members of the MARQUES Brands and Marketing Team review five popular schemes.
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How MARQUES is representing members
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 MARQUES members have taken part in a number of events and activities in the past month. Here are some of them.
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Social media guidelines published
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Media Roundup: latest blog posts
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Reflecting the growing prominence of MARQUES social media channels (including the Class 46 and Class 99 blogs, twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook), a Social Media Policy has been published on the website.
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 Among the posts on Class 46 and Class 99 this month: the Apple Store trade mark decision, stripes as trade marks and Hague Agreement spring clean.
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Retail therapy? Apple's shop lay-out is not precluded from registration, rules CJEU
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its keenly-awaited ruling today in Case C-421/13Apple Inc. v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, affirming that the same criteria for registrability apply to all types of trade mark.
In 2010 Apple registered the three-dimensional trade mark depicted on the right in the United States. The mark consisted of a representation, by a multicoloured design, of its flagship stores. That trade mark was registered for ‘retail store services featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals, mobile phones, consumer electronics and related accessories and demonstrations of products relating thereto’. Read more
3 is famous and 5 is a zebra: On stripes as trademarks
Some (delayed) thoughts on the recent 5-stripes judgment of the General Court in Case T-85/13K-Swiss, Inc. v. OHIM / K�nzli SwissSchuh AG, on which see Laetitia Lagarde's timely and informative note (citing the difference with the decision of the Swiss Supreme Court) and also that of Alberto Bellan on IPKat.
Readers of this blog will recall that the General Court allowed the cancellation of K-Swiss 5-stripe trademark below, on the grounds that it does not live up to the required minimum degree of distinctive character since that design (5-stripes) does not depart significantly from the standard designs that are shown on the sides of these kind of products and will be perceived simply as decoration. Read more
Relax! WIPO gives Hague Agreement an administrative spring-clean
In a recently-published document "Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs: Amendments to the Administrative Instructions", Hague Announcement No. 3/2014, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) lists numerous amendments to the Administrative Instructions to the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs. Read more
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Which designs should be registered?
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 The CP6 project in the Cooperation Programme tackles graphic representation of designs. David Stone of the Designs Team explains the proposals, and the MARQUES response to them.
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Why accountability matters at ICANN
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 ICANN’s latest meeting was held in London last month, and proved to the biggest ever. Nick Wood of the Cyberspace Team reports.
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USPTO cancels REDSKINS trade mark
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 The US Patent and Trademark Office found that the REDSKINS trade mark for Washington DC’s American football team was disparaging to Native Americans. Janet Satterthwaite reports.
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Five more years for Campinos
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Get the latest information on Madrid
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 António Campinos's term as President of OHIM has been extended, it was announced on 27th June.
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The latest edition of WIPO’s useful publication Madrid Highlights has been published and includes information from contracting parties and online tools and services.
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Issue 043
