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.

More than 150 Council and Team members attended the MARQUES Spring Meeting in Frankfurt on 1 and 2 March

The MARQUES Designs Team will host a webinar on EU design law on Wednesday 3 May from 15.00 to 16.30 CET

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

The MARQUES Brands and Marketing Team has published two new documents: a Basic Introduction to Web3 presentation and a paper on social media impersonation

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

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

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

The EUIPO User Group Meeting took place in Alicante during the week of 27 March. This was the 34^th meeting since they began in 1998.

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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