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Spain leaves community search system while EuroClass is expanding further
Spain leaves the community search system
On its website OHIM informs its users that the Spain, or rather the Spanish Oficina Española de Marcas y Patentes has opted out of the community search system. This decision takes effect as of 1 January 2012, taking the number of National Offices participating in the community search system to ten countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Finland. Applications with national search requests and a reception date in 2012 with will not be sent to the Spanish Office and the applicable fee will be lowered to €120 from 1 January 2012 onwards.
Three new members of EuroClass
While the community search system is shrinking, EuroClass is expanding further. OHIM reports today that three further countries have joined joined the EuroClass classification project. Cyprus and France joined the project on 1 January, followed a few days later by Austria, bringing the total number of participating offices to 23. More information about EuroClass can be found here.
Posted by: Birgit Clark @ 13.08Tags: OHIM, Spain, EuroClass,
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