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Lewis Gaze Memorial Scholarship 2022
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 You can now download the paper that won this year’s Lewis Gaze Memorial Award from the MARQUES website
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Annual Conference Resource Pack
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 Annual Conference delegates can still download the Resource Pack, which includes photos, presentations and videos of the Conference sessions, from the MARQUES website
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Court backs TM owner over 3D shape mark
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The EU General Court has overturned a decision of the EUIPO Board of Appeal in a case concerning the revocation of a 3D trade mark in the shape of a baby's bottle. The MARQUES Amicus Curiae Team prepared a submission in support of the trade mark owner’s position, which was included as an annex
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CJEU rules in exhaustion cases
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 On 17 November the EU Court of Justice handed down judgments in five cases concerning the interpretation of legislation including the Trade Mark Directive and Enforcement Directive
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Latest EU General Court trade mark judgments
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HouseMARQUES summarises some recent General Court decisions concerning genuine use, absolute grounds for refusal and likelihood of confusion
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TM5 and ID5 meet in Brussels
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 EUIPO hosted the annual meetings of the five biggest trade mark and design offices at the end of October
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Recent news from EUIPO
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WIPO publications and treaties
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 Developments at EUIPO include new offices joining the IP Register in Blockchain, MBBC meetings and further extension of time limits for parties in Ukraine
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 WIPO has published the World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report, as well as a traditional knowledge language pack and Green Technology Book. Plus: Paraguay has joined two IP treaties
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IP Register in Blockchain The IP offices of Poland and Italy have joined the IP Register in Blockchain, bringing the number of participating offices to six. Poland transferred more than 34,000 records to DesignView and Italy brought more than 1.1 million trade marks to TMview. Launched last year, the IP Register in Blockchain platform provides fast and secure data transfer between IP offices and TMview and DesignView. It now has more than 3.5 million records for trade marks and 1.6 million records for designs. Read more on EUIPO’s website here. MBBC meetings The EUIPO Management Board and Budget Committee met from 22 to 24 November. MARQUES has observer status at the non-confidential parts of the meetings. Mr Jorma Hanski’s term as Chairperson of the Management Board was renewed for a term of four years from 1 January 2023. The Board also decided not to propose to the Council the extension of term of office of the Executive Director, Mr Christian Archambeau, for an additional term. His mandate as Executive Director will therefore end on 30 September 2023 and a vacancy notice for that position will be published shortly. Read more on the EUIPO website here. Ukraine A further three-month extension for all parties in proceedings before the Office having their residence or registered office in Ukraine has been announced. It extends all time limits expiring between 2 November 2022 and 1 February 2023 inclusive until 2 February 2023. EUIPO will continue to review the need for further extensions. Read more here.
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DSA becomes reality
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 Gabriele Engels, Co-Vice-Chair of the MARQUES Cyberspace Team, provides an update on the EU Digital Services Act
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MARQUES events
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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Booking will soon be open for the MARQUES Spring Meeting, which takes place in Frankfurt, Germany from 2 to 3 March
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 Keep up to date with all the latest IP news and analysis on the MARQUES blogs and social media!
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RIP Dr Björn Bahlmann
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 MARQUES was very sorry to hear of the sudden and unexpected death of Björn Bahlmann on 4 November
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Issue 143
