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Coming soon: Spring Meeting and webinars
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 The MARQUES Spring Team Meeting will take place online on 11 and 12 March, and there are webinars being held on 4 February and 2 March
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New episode of Talking MARQUES
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 Episode 2 of the Talking MARQUES podcast is now available. This month's episode focuses on the threat from counterfeit and fraudulent pharmaceuticals, devices and vaccines in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Copyright Directive tracker
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 The MARQUES Copyright Team has a launched a tracker on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
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There have not been many legislative developments in recent years in the European Union that have been as fiercely fought as the Directive EU 2019/290 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. After many discussions, the Directive was finally published on 17 May 2019. The Member States are required to implement the Directive until 07 June 2021. As the copyright regime is not fully harmonised in the European Union, the Member States have a certain degree of flexibility on the adoption of the Directive, which makes it is more important than ever to be up to date on the status of implementation of the Directive. In order to keep MARQUES members on track on the status of the implementation, the Copyright Team, led by Franz Gernhardt and Christian Schumacher, has developed together with MARQUES a copyright tracker that allows all Members to quickly check the status of the implementation. The Copyright Team thanks the Team members and other MARQUES members for their contributions to the tracker. The tracker is accessible here and will be regularly updated.
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Joint comments on designs review
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 MARQUES, together with ECTA and INTA, has submitted joint comments on the European Commission's Inception Impact Assessment on the review of the Design Directive and Community Design Regulation
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Protection of GIs for non-agricultural products
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MARQUES has published initial feedback on the European Commission's Inception Impact Assessment published in relation to a proposed legislative initiative that would aim to create an EU-wide protection system for geographical indications of non-agricultural products
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European Commission launches SME Fund
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Madrid System forms updated
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 All EU SMEs can apply for co-financing for certain services under the new Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund, which will provide up to €20 million in grants for IP services this year
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 WIPO has published Information Notice No 1/2021 on Updated Official Forms under the Madrid System and New Accompanying Notes for Filing
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Recent EU General Court decisions
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The EU General Court has published a number of decisions in cases involving EUTM applications or registrations during January. Here is a selection
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WIPO PROOF now in 10 languages
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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WIPO's digital business service for safeguarding intellectual assets, WIPO PROOF, is now available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
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 Thanks to all the MARQUES Teams and members who continue to contribute updates to the Class 46 and Class 99 blogs!
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Issue 121
