The Industrial Property Office of the Business Development Agency of the Principality of Monaco (MCIPO) has published a practice paper on the examination of absolute grounds for refusal for figurative trade marks with purely descriptive words/expressions.

As of 13 September 2021, IP Australia has made its designs available to the DESIGNview search tools.

The EUIPN is the hub that brings together the national and regional IP offices of the EU, the EUIPO, and its international partners and customers. It aims to build a stronger IP network within the European Union.

The EUIPO has launched a new European Network of Authenticities website. This online platform aims to promote the network of Authenticities by reaching out to potential stakeholders and providing useful information on the project.

The ‘Registro Nacional’ of Costa Rica (RN) has just published a Practice Paper concerning the graphic representation of industrial designs.

As of 13 August 2021, the Namibian Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) will be included in TMclass. BIPA will join with the alphabetical list of the Nice classification.

A new database has been launched to provide access to trade mark data from the Andean Community countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

The Commerce Department of the Government of Malta (CD-IPRD), with the support of the EUIPO’s European cooperation project ECP1, has improved the electronic services available for its users. It did so by upgrading the technical platform that supports the Maltese (MT) Front Office system and migrating it to the government cloud services.

Following last year’s certification of Thessaloniki, on 23 July 2021 the Municipality of Mykonos became the second Greek Authenticity to join the growing European Network of Authenticities.

As of 28 July 2021, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) uses and accepts the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.