Issue 092

	August 2018 Contents:
	Annual Conference SOLD OUT!	>
	MARQUES takes part in Madrid Working Group	>
	EU Judges Meeting, 18 January 2019	>
	Field Notes from the Outer Borders: La Mafia	>
	EUIPO guidance on acquired distinctiveness	>
	The hazy world of trade marks and cannabis in North America	>
	New version of 11th edition of Nice Classification	>
	MARQUES Media Roundup	>
	MARQUES events for your diary	>

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Annual Conference SOLD OUT!
September’s Annual Conference in Paris is sold out, with more than 900 people expected to attend – a record number
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MARQUES takes part in Madrid Working Group
Tove Graulund and Jessica Le Gros of the International Trade Mark Law & Practice Team represented MARQUES at the 16^th session of the Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks, which was held in Geneva from 2 to 6 July 2018
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EU Judges Meeting, 18 January 2019
Full details of the first MARQUES EU Judges Meeting will be announced at the Annual Conference in September
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Field Notes from the Outer Borders: La Mafia
In the latest in its series of Field Notes concerning unusual trade marks, Adrian Smith of the IP Emerging Issues Team looks at a mark that now sleeps with the fishes
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EUIPO guidance on acquired distinctiveness
Guidance on Article 7(3) EUTMR claims; an overview of case law in 2017; and information on the extension of visual search in TMview are all available in the latest issue of Alicante News
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The hazy world of trade marks and cannabis in North America
Few people can have failed to notice the increasing public and political debate on the question of cannabis use and its legalization, or not as the case may be. While debate has focused on the social, political and economic issues, the legalization of cannabis poses particular challenges to brands. Janet Satterthwaite, Mary-Jane Lemenchick and Stella Syrianos of the MARQUES IP Emerging Issues Team examine the landscape in North America and reveal the dilemmas posed by cannabis in the world of trade marks
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New version of 11th edition of Nice Classification
A new version of the 11^th edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification) will enter into force on 1 January 2019
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MARQUES Media Roundup		Swedish Judges Meeting coming soon!
Recent topics covered on the MARQUES blogs include the EU joining the Geneva Act and Israel’s new Designs Law		In addition to the Annual Conference and the EU Judges Meeting, there are several other MARQUES events planned
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Recent blog posts include: Geneva Act gains momentum In a guest post, Ozlem Futman of the MARQUES Geographical Indications Team brings news about EU membership of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement Read in full here: https://www.marques.org/class46?XID=BHA4663 Canada and the Madrid Protocol As Class 99 reported last month, Canada has recently joined the Hague Agreement on the Registration of Industrial Designs. Now there is news from WIPO that the country is preparing to join the Madrid Protocol Read in full: https://www.marques.org/class46?XID=BHA4661 New Israeli Design Law comes into force Sa'ar Alon, Partner and head of the Designs Department at MARQUES member Reinhold Cohn & Partners, has contacted Class 99 with the news that Israel's new Design Law came into force on 7 August. This law replaces the old Designs Ordinance of 1924. It extends design protection from 18 years to 25 years and introduces an absolute novelty requirement. The new Law also regulates unregistered designs. Read in full: https://www.marques.org/class99?XID=BHA853 If you are interested in contributing to the MARQUES blogs, contact the blog administrator James Nurton at editor@marques.org or speak to him at the Annual Conference!

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