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The MARQUES guide to the EU trade mark reforms
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 MARQUES has been active over many years in the discussions leading to the EU trade mark reforms, which were published in May this year. Members of the EU Trade Mark Reform Task Force highlight the good, the bad and the surprising aspects of what has been agreed
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Luxury Brands Symposium in Zurich
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Nearly 100 people attended the first MARQUES Luxury Brands Symposium, titled “The Protection of Luxury Brands in a Fast Moving World” in Zurich, Switzerland in June
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OHIM seminar on relative grounds
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MARQUES has the opportunity for one member to attend a three-day seminar on Trade Marks: Relative Grounds (Intermediate Level) at OHIM in Alicante on 7th to 9th September 2015
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EU report on IPR enforcement worldwide
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The European Commission published its biennial report on protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in key third countries on 16th July
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European Parliament backs improved IPR enforcement
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Harmonised Database enlarged with Madrid terms
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Members of the European Parliament have adopted two resolutions regarding enforcement of IP rights
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  OHIM’s online classification services include nearly 5,000 new goods and services from the Madrid system as of 1st July
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Fake clothes, shoes and accessories cost EU industry €26 bn a year
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A new report by the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights estimates that the sale of counterfeit clothes, shoes and accessories in the EU amounts to 9.7% of the sector’s sales
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Forthcoming MARQUES events
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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Mark your calendars for the upcoming MARQUES events in Singapore, Vienna, The Hague and Frankfurt
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New OHIM Examination Guidelines, questions about the ACID Designs Databank and laudatory signs – just three of the topics being discussed on the MARQUES Class 46 and Class 99 blogs in the past month
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Off to Pluto? Looking for something to read? Try OHIM's revised Examination Guidelines  Last week our friends at OHIM have published Decision EX-15-2 of the President adopting revised Guidelines for Examination on Community trade marks and registered Community designs. This is a formidable document which Class 99 will make to attempt to summarise, since it spans a massive 616 pages and features the word "design" 375 times.
Read on: http://www.marques.org/class99/Default.asp?XID=BHA667
The ACID Databank and unregistered designs: a couple of questions
 A recent spate of tweets from UK-based designers' organisation ACID (Anti Copying in Design) has reminded this blogger of the existence of its Design Databank. Readers of this blog may not be familiar with it, so he takes the liberty of reproducing the following text from ACID's website
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'HOT': The fate of laudatory signs before the General Court
 The General Court (GC) recently handed down its judgment in Case T-611/13 Australian Gold LLC v OHIM and Effect Management & Holding GmbH, deciding on whether the figurative sign 'HOT' on the right could be protected, in particular, for cosmetics and sanitary products. The decision deals, among other things, with the question of how to distinguish (non-registrable) laudatory terms which exclusively describe certain characteristics of the relevant products, on the one hand, from sufficiently ambiguous (and, thus, registrable) words on the other hand (see, on this point, OHIM Examination Guidelines, Section 4, p. 40).
Read on: http://www.marques.org/class46/Default.asp?XID=BHA4145
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Issue 055
