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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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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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With the Committee of Permanent Representatives’ (COREPER) formal approval in September 2022, the Digital Services Act (DSA) (COM/2020/825 final) took another giant step to becoming law. The DSA seeks to supplement the regulations of the E-Commerce Directive (Directive 2000/31/EC), which at over 20 years of age is no longer equipped to tackle the challenges of the contemporary digital landscape. The DSA aims to ensure a safer online environment, predominantly by introducing new obligations for intermediaries to expeditiously remove harmful and illegal content, goods and services. The range of targeted content is extensive, with everything from hate speech over incitement to terrorism to copyright infringements falling within the scope of the regulation. The range of targeted parties is just as broad, with all online intermediaries targeting EU consumers falling into the scope of the regulation. The importance placed on these new rules by the EU is evidenced by the consequences imposed on non-compliance. Intermediaries face fines of up to 6% of the companies’ global annual revenue, thereby exceeding even the maximum amount imposed by the GDPR. Read Gabriele’s full article on the MARQUES Class 46 blog here (published on 29 October)
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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
