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More Cooperation Fund projects go live
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A suite of tools making up the Cooperation Fund were switched on last month. The Fund includes 17 projects in total. More than half of these are now operational, with further developments expected next year.
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Among the latest developments are:
The launch of the Common Gateway for Applications providing a platform which offers easily accessible tools and online services for trade mark and design users. Through the Gateway, online services such as access to Common Search Tools, knowledge bases and e-learning programmes can all be accessed. The e-learning can be accessed here and the Common Gateway can be found at www.tmdn.org
The development of the Future Software Package, which aims to help national offices and OHIM to offer a range of additional services (both internal and external) to improve efficiency and enhance end user experience. The three streams of the project include: e-filing for trade marks and designs, e-payment, e-opposition, e-cancellation for trade marks, e-registration and the back office for trade marks and designs.
The addition of trade marks from the Austrian Patent Office and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) to the TMView database, which provides free access to applications and registrations from 23 trade mark offices, including OHIM and WIPO. TMView is soon expected to include Greece, Cyprus, Ireland and Poland, meaning it will also cover all 27 EU Member States.
The number of offices in the classification tool EuroClass is now 29, after Austria, France, Slovenia and the United States joined at the beginning of 2012 and the Japanese Patent Office and the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM) joined in October and early November respectively. WIPO will also incorporate its databases in the EuroClass system.
Since 1 October, EuroClass is available in 23 languages. It brings together the classification databases of goods and services descriptions or terms of each participating trade mark office, to facilitate the process of classifying goods and services. It also highlights the classification differences that still remain between the participating offices.
MARQUES has participated in the E-Learning and Search Image Cooperation Fund projects, represented respectively by Tove Graulund (of MARQUES Council) and Éva Szigeti of the MARQUES Trade Mark Law and Practice Team.
To read more, please visit OHIM’s website and in particular IP C&C Newsletters.
Source: OHIM
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New goods and services in CTM e-filing
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Seniority project grows
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As of 15 October 2012, OHIM has introduced a new provisional feature in the section on goods and services in the electronic Community trade mark application form. The feature allows applicants, who have selected the Class Heading for a particular class, to tick a box indicating they wish to be covered for all the goods or services in the alphabetical list of the Nice Classification.
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The National Office of Slovenia and the Benelux Office of Intellectual Property (BOIP) have become the fifth and sixth offices to implement the Cooperation Fund seniority project. They join Ireland, Hungary, Portugal and the Czech Republic in the implementation of this project.
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Liaison Meeting on Trade Marks
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MARQUES attended the Eighth Liaison Meeting on Trade Marks which was held in Alicante on 10 and 11 October 2012, represented by Diana Versteeg, first Vice-Chair of MARQUES Council and Alessandra Romeo, MARQUES External Relations Officer.
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TM5 Meeting held in Barcelona
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 In its observer status at the OHIM Administrative Board and Budget Committee, MARQUES was invited by OHIM to attend the TM5 Meeting which took place in Barcelona on 30 and 31 October 2012. The MARQUES delegation was composed of Alessandra Romeo, MARQUES External Relations Officer, and Sebastian Fischoeder, a member of the MARQUES Designs Team.
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New OHIM website project and Convergence Programme projects
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 Sofia Martinez, second Vice-Chair of MARQUES Trade Mark Law and Practice Team, attended the third and last meeting of the Working Group of the new OHIM website project held in Alicante on 4 October 2012.
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MARQUES meets European Commission DGs
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Liaison Meeting on Designs
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 On 15 October 2012, a MARQUES delegation led by Diana Versteeg, first Vice-Chair of MARQUES Council (pictured), and including Alessandra Romeo (MARQUES External Relations Officer), Massimo Sterpi (of MARQUES Council) and Ian Lowe (in the chair) from the MARQUES Regulatory and Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Teams met with officials of DG TAXUD and DG TRADE as well as with members of Commissioner De Gucht’s Cabinet.
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 The Designs Liaison Meeting took place at OHIM last month. In addition to representatives of the member states (current and candidate), there were members of ECTA, FICPI and INTA. David Stone, Chair of the Designs Team (pictured), represented MARQUES.
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What colour is your trade mark?
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Recent European and US cases on colour trade marks are compared by members of the IP Outer Borders Team.
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WIPO clarifies class headings practice
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 WIPO has issued a communication entitled: Indications that the Use of Class Headings of the Nice Classification in International Applications Is Intended to Cover all the Goods and Services Included in the Alphabetical Lists of the Classes Concerned.
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New process for OHIM Guidelines
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OHIM is to adopt a new process in 2013 which will see its manuals on trade mark and registered design practice replaced by a new set of Guidelines in all official EU languages.
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MARQUES media roundup
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MARQUES Office opening times
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 Catch up on the news and discussions from the MARQUES website and social media channels.
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 Please note the MARQUES Office will close at 1700hrs on Friday 21 December and will reopen at 0900hrs on Wednesday 2 January 2013. We would like to extend Seasonal Greetings to all our members and we wish you a peaceful and prosperous New Year.
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Issue 024
