Issue 071

	November 2016 Contents:
	MARQUES Chair Uwe Over – a video interview	>
	IR challenges addressed at MARQUES seminars	>
	What you need to know about the Enforcement Database	>
	Scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting	>
	Brazil set to join Madrid Protocol	>
	Update from WIPO on Nice Classification	>
	Trade marks in Africa – an update	>
	The pluses and minuses of licensing your brand	>
	Luxury Brand Symposium and other events	>
	MARQUES Media Roundup	>

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MARQUES Chair Uwe Over – a video interview
MARQUES Chair Uwe Over took a few minutes during the Annual Conference in Villaitana to discuss MARQUES activities and achievements, reflect on his term as chair, and comment on IP trends and hot issues
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IR challenges addressed at MARQUES seminars
MARQUES hosted three seminars on International Registrations and US designations last month, featuring presentations from WIPO and the USPTO as well as local trade mark specialists
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What you need to know about the Enforcement Database
In the workshop that took place on 22^nd September during the MARQUES Annual Conference in Alicante, Blanca Arteche, Heike Schulz and Miguel Fayos gave attendees their points of view regarding the Enforcement Database (EDB) platform. Sonia Santos reports
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Scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting
An Observatory report estimates €10.2 billion in lost revenue each year across the EU due to counterfeit pharmaceuticals. MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team reports
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Brazil set to join Madrid Protocol		Update from WIPO on Nice Classification
The Brazilian government has made a commitment that the country will join the international trade mark system by mid-2018		The Committee of Experts has approved the 11th Edition of Nice Classification, which will come into effect on 1st January 2017
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At a meeting with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry on November 24, Brazil's Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services Marcos Pereira confirmed the country’s intention to join Madrid. WIPO posted the news on Flickr and Twitter. MARQUES welcomes this latest development and hopes that ratification will now proceed smoothly. Members of the MARQUES International Trade Mark Law and Practice Team, and the MARQUES Executive, have worked over several years to encourage Brazil to join Madrid. In particular, both Tove Graulund and Jane Collins visited the country to meet with officials while they were MARQUES chairs. The announcement about Madrid came soon after President Michel Temer succeeded President Dilma Rousseff on August 31 this year. The biggest challenge now is for the BPTO to reduce its backlog of trade mark applications, so that it can cut the time to registration from 30 months to the 18 months required by Madrid. MARQUES supports equal treatment and would insist on less than 18 months examination for all applicants, including national applicants. Tackling the backlog will be difficult but the BPTO is understood to be hiring additional examiners and considering fast-tracking applications that are not opposed. The Madrid System has 98 members, but only three in Latin America. With a population of over 200 million, Brazil would be a significant addition to the System, and might also encourage other countries in the region to join. The MARQUES International Trade Mark Law & Practice Team, and in particular its Brazilian member Eduardo Machado, will keep members updated on further developments.
Trade marks in Africa – an update
A new paper by the International Trade Mark Law & Practice Team, available on the MARQUES website, provides a guide to trade marks across Africa. Mariëtte du Plessis and Stephen Hollis introduce the key points. (Click on the map to see a larger version.)
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The pluses and minuses of licensing your brand
In the second in a series of articles discussing various aspects of licensing brands, members of the MARQUES IAM Team discuss the disadvantages of brand exploitation through licensing and what a brand licensor should always consider before venturing on a licence journey
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Luxury Brand Symposium and other events		MARQUES Media Roundup
MARQUES will host its second Luxury Brand Symposium in Hong Kong on 16^th and 17^th March 2017		Do you read MARQUES blogs and social media? If not, this is some of what you have missed!
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