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Registration open for Spring Team Meeting
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 MARQUES Council and Team members can now book their places at the Spring Team Meeting, which takes place at the Hilton Hotel, Frankfurt on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 March
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From the Observatory: latest reports
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In their regular update for HouseMARQUES, the MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team summarise the most recent reports published and the Watch List 2022
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Input into EU Design Review
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 MARQUES has been involved in the debate on the reform of the European Union Design legislation since its inception, following the publication of the Legal Review on Industrial Designs Protection in Europe in 2016
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EUIPO launches SME Fund 2023
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 The Ideas Powered SME Fund 2023 was opened on 23 January and will run until 15 December 2023
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During this period, European SMEs can apply for voucher 1 (IP Scan, when applicable) and voucher 2 (trade marks and designs). The SME Fund provides financial support to SMEs in the EU for the protection of their IP rights, by allowing them to apply for partial refunds of the IP pre-diagnostic service (IP Scan), trade mark and design applications and national patent applications. In 2022, the second year of operation, there were 22,479 applications to the SME Fund from 27 EU countries. This was almost double the number of applications in 2021. Spain was the top country for applications in 2022, followed by Poland, Italy, France and Germany, and three-quarters of the SMEs who applied were micro SMEs. More information is available on EUIPO’s website here, from where the picture is taken.
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WIPO Global Awards
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 Representatives of SMEs can now apply for the WIPO 2023 Global Awards
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Recent rulings from the CJEU and General Court
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HouseMARQUES summarises recent trade mark cases at Europe’s top courts, including the CJEU judgment in the Louboutin v Amazon cases concerning liability of online platforms
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Draft revision to China Trademark Law
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 On 13 January this year, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued a notification on soliciting public opinions regarding the draft revision to the China Trademark Law
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Combating online piracy of live content
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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The European Commission is conducting a call for evidence on the piracy of live content, such as sports events
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 It has been a busy month on the MARQUES blogs, with reports from MARQUES members on various legislative developments and judgments
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Issue 145
