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Interview: MARQUES Chair Antony Douglass
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 Specsavers Legal Director Antony Douglass, who specialises in intellectual property, data protection, marketing and digital strategy, took over as MARQUES Chair during the recent spring meeting in Frankfurt. In this interview, he talks about the role of Chair, his interesting day job and the big challenges brands face today.
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Highlights from the Spring Meeting
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 More than 150 Council and Team members attended the MARQUES Spring Meeting in Frankfurt on 1 and 2 March
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Book now for webinar on design case law
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 The MARQUES Designs Team will host a webinar on EU design law on Wednesday 3 May from 15.00 to 16.30 CET
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Question the Trade Mark Judges
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 On 7 March, UCL-IBIL and MARQUES hosted the latest “Question the Trade Mark Judges” event in London. The Q&A panel discussion covered various timely issues in EU and UK trade mark law and procedure
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Practical guides published
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AI against counterfeits
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The MARQUES Brands and Marketing Team has published two new documents: a Basic Introduction to Web3 presentation and a paper on social media impersonation
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As part of its ongoing project on AI and IP, the MARQUES Cyberspace Team has prepared a paper looking at how AI-powered solutions can help in the fight against counterfeiting
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From the Observatory
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 In their regular update, Petra Herkul, Maria Cecilia Romoleroux and Sonia Santos of the MARQUES Anti-Counterfeiting and Parallel Trade Team summarise recent news from the EUIPO Observatory, EMPACT and the European Commission
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Observatory projects The Observatory is currently working on: - Getting suggestions and ideas from stakeholders for outreach and awareness activities;
- Planning an IP Enforcement Summit 2023;
- Supporting ANDEMA, which has invited stakeholders to suggest topics and speakers for an event organised by ANDEMA in Barcelona in December;
- Requesting volunteers for the storage and destruction workshops;
- Looking into the new draft bill related to injunctions for group blocking of domain names and social media accounts that is being discussed in France; and
- Requesting suggestions for the Work Programme 2024.
EMPACT EMPACT, the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats, is working on improving and expanding its IP Crime Investigation Handbook. One aspect of this is interviewing right holders, so EMPACT would like to get in touch with right holders that they can interview in person. If you are interested in sharing your experiences with EMPACT, please contact Petra Herkul (Chair of the ACPT Team) and she will connect you. Live event piracy On 15 March, a discussion paper titled "Live Event Piracy – challenges and best practises from online intermediaries to prevent the use of their services for live event piracy" was published. This is likely to be of particular interest to organisers or sponsors of live events such as sports matches and tournaments.
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WIPO reports annual IP data
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MARQUES joins EUIPO User Group Meeting
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 Use of the international trade mark system fell by 6.1% in 2022, but the number of designs included in international applications under the Hague System increased by 11.2%, according to figures published by WIPO
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 European Union Intellectual Property Office (@EU_IPO) _ Twitter.png) The EUIPO User Group Meeting took place in Alicante during the week of 27 March. This was the 34th meeting since they began in 1998.
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Trade mark and design judgments in March
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The CJEU has published its opinion in a case concerning design rights, and the EU General Court has delivered several interesting judgments in cases concerning EUTMs and RCDs
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MARQUES Media Roundup
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 The MARQUES blogs include reports on cases and legal developments as well as news from MARQUES Teams. Sign up for notifications so you don’t miss out!
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Issue 147
