Issue 057

	September 2015 Contents:
	Ten highlights from the Annual Conference 2015	>
	Discussing dispute resolution in Singapore	>
	A letter to MARQUES members from WIPO	>
	Two more judges meetings announced	>
	MARQUES Media Roundup	>
	CP3 – Distinctiveness of figurative marks available	>
	Turkey’s national strategy and action plan for GIs	>
	Seminar on the Hague System on 19th November	>
	TMview and Designview expand	>

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Ten highlights from the Annual Conference 2015
With three packed days of presentations and workshops, some remarkable venues and lots of busy networking, it was a memorable 29th MARQUES Annual Conference. HouseMARQUES selects a few highlights.
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Discussing dispute resolution in Singapore
Nearly 40 people attended the recent MARQUES event on protecting trade marks with arbitration and domain name UDRP in Singapore, with some coming from as far away as India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and California.
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A letter to MARQUES members from WIPO
MARQUES is pleased to share with members a letter received from the WIPO team following this year’s Annual Conference.
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Two more judges meetings announced		MARQUES Media Roundup
MARQUES has published details of judges meetings to be held in The Hague and Munich.		Water toys, golden bears and Jack Daniel’s were just a few of the topics being discussed on the MARQUES blogs Class 46 and Class 99 over the past month.
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“Trade Mark Judges on Trade Mark Law” will be held at the Benelux Office for IP in The Hague on 11^th November. The attendance fee is €300 and the one-day meeting will be held in Dutch. The day includes lunch and post-meeting drinks. Details of the programme and speakers are available on the event page on the MARQUES website. “Talks with the Judges from the German Trade Mark Office” will be held in Munich on 20^th November. It will be held in German and the fee is €350. More details are available on the event page. Other planned events include: Question the Trade Mark Judges (London, 14^th October) Spring Team Meeting (Frankfurt, 3^rd-4^th March 2016) 30^th Annual Conference (Villaitana, Alicante, 20^th-23^rd September 2016)
CP3 – Distinctiveness of figurative marks available
OHIM is continuing to work along with IP offices across Europe to increase convergence of IP practices. The latest fruit of this labour is the most recently endorsed Common Practice document, CP3: ‘Distinctiveness – Figurative marks containing descriptive/non-distinctive words'.
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Turkey’s national strategy and action plan for GIs
In a follow up to last month’s article, Özlem Fütman of the MARQUES GI Team discusses Turkey’s GI roadmap for 2015 to 2018.
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Seminar on the Hague System on 19th November		TMview and Designview expand
WIPO is hosting a seminar on the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs in Geneva on 19th November.		Data from Canada has been added to TMview, while Designview now includes data from Canada, China and the US.
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