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FRIDAY, 1 APRIL 2011
Happy birthday, CTM!
Today, as the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market records, is the 15th anniversary of the filing of the first Community trade mark applications. Says an OHIM media release
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Happy birthday, CTM!
The Office was established at the beginning of 1996, but the filing date for the first CTM applications was set at 1 April of that year. By that day, a decade and a half ago, around 21,000 CTMs had been received, well in excess of the projected demand for the full year. Since then almost 320,000 companies or individuals in 190 countries have made 940,000 CTM applications, of which more than 713,000 have been registered, making the CTM a true European success story.
The MARQUES Class 46 weblog wishes the Community trade mark system and its administrators a very happy anniversary. We have travelled a long way together in the past decade and a half, and the experience -- if sometimes frustrating -- has been ultimately rewarding. Let's hope that OHIM, the national offices and their users will be able to cooperate to bring further improvements in the system and that the next 15 years will be as productive, fruitful and enjoyable for most of us as the first 15 years have been.
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