AG examination: Slogans Advanced
This short course will help you understand how an application for a slogan is examined based on Absolute Grounds for refusal. If you are an examiner, you will be able to assess slogans in compliance with the regulations and to draft well-founded objection letters for this type of trade mark. If you are a trade mark applicant or legal representative, you will be able to avoid common errors ...
Training on the Revised ASEAN Trade Mark Guidelines Basic
Series of online training modules that provides Trade Mark officials from each Member State with the latest information on the new revision of the guidelines, the comparison of goods and services, the distinctiveness of three-dimensional marks, and new types of trade marks. ARISEIPR series webinar. Modules: Module 1: Distinctiveness of Three-Dimensional Marks Module 2: New Types of Trade Mar...
Refiling of trade marks and bad faith Intermediate
This webinar will analyse the area of refiling of trade marks. It will focus on the case-law that allows trade marks to be refiled, as well as on case-law relating to the refiling of trade marks considered to have been carried out in bad faith.Speaker:Sven STÜRMANN - EUIPO - Boards of Appeal
Measures to Prevent Bad-faith Registrations and Protection of Well-known Trade Marks Basic
Prof. Irene Calboli from Texas A&M University School of Law comes back to the series of webinars on trade marks and explains in the last session how the Paris Convention and the TRIPS Agreement, for example, provide the framework for the protection of trade marks and the prevention of bad-faith registration. IPKeySEA series webinars. Objective: To discuss the new developments...
Examination of Non-traditional Trade Marks Basic
EUIPO expert Thom Clark explains the legal framework and the representation of specific types of trade marks at the EUIPO in the second webinar of the webinar series on trade marks. The webinar also includes a Q&A session on the examination of particular kinds of marks. IPKeySEA series webinars Objective: To discuss the new developments in non-traditional or new types of trad...
Distinctiveness of shape marks - Convergence Programme 9 Intermediate
The Common Practices are Common European guidelines, drafted by all EU Intellectual Property Offices together with the contribution of User Associations. CP9 deals with the challenge of registering a shape mark when the shape itself is non-distinctive. It examines how to overcome, if possible, such an obstacle and how to meet the threshold of distinctiveness. This webinar summarises to...
Absolute grounds for refusal - shape of goods (Article 7 EUTMR) Advanced
The webinar focuses on the way distinctiveness of shape marks is being assessed by the Office and presents the main results of the convergence project CP 9 COMMON PRACTICE ON SHAPE MARKS. It also addresses the absolute grounds for refusal under Article 7(1)(e) EUTMR. Speaker: Robert MULAC - Operations Department
How to assess evidence of acquired distinctiveness Advanced
The webinar starts with a general overview of the function of Article 7(3) EUTMR within the legal framework of absolute grounds of refusal and its procedural and substantial requirements. The main part focuses on assessing evidence under Article 7(3) EUTMR. It covers the standard of proof, means of evidence, general rules of assessment and common mistakes in the submission of evidence. This is f...
The functionality test in EUTM and RCD proceedings Advanced
The functionality tests for EUTMs and RCDs are key to a balanced intellectual property system serving the internal market. This webinar addresses their principle differences and some selected practical issues. Speaker: Stephan HANNE - EUIPO - International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department
How to pass AG examination: insight to the examiner’s check list’ Advanced
The webinar will discuss the process for examining EUTMAs with regards to the absolute grounds for objection (Art. 7 EUTMR), and will highlight some of the important searches that trade mark examiners must do related to those grounds. Speaker: Herbert JOHNSTON - EUIPO - Operations Department