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On 26 August, the Africa Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Project (AfrIPI) was officially launched during an event of the Africa Regional Intellectual Property Organisation Diplomatic Conference, held in Kampala, Uganda.
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The Executive Director, Mr Christian Archambeau, welcomed the State Secretary for Global Spain (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation), Mr Manuel Muñiz Villa, during his visit to Alicante on 4 May 2021.
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A collaboration agreement between the EUIPO and EUROCHAMBRES has been signed on 29 March. This collaboration marks the beginning of a new chapter for the EUIPO SME programme network that continues its healthy expansion.
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The meeting gathered 18 representatives of 12 User Associations. The Executive Director, Christian Archambeau, addressed the meeting by updating the participants on the impact of COVID-19 on the Office’s activities and its users, as well as an outline of the upcoming strategic and institutional agenda....
On 14 October, the CARIFORUM Directorate along with Intellectual Property (IP) Offices of its Member States, the European Union, and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), met virtually to discuss the present and future activities of CarIPI, a European Development Fund (EDF) initiative, which aims to promote and boost innovation and IP rights in the Caribbean region....
This new study published by the EUIPO through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights looks at EU firms’ simultaneous use of patents, trade marks and registered designs to protect their innovation....
The entry into force of the current version of the Office’s Guidelines on trade mark and design practice in February this year (with the Decision of the Executive Director No EX‑19‑4) brought into effect a change of practice in the general rules of practice in the area of professional representation, and specifically for ‘Associations’ (Part A, General rules, Section 5, Professional representation, paragraph 3.4.3)....
The aim of Alicante News is to provide up-to-date information on EUIPO-related matters, as well as on other general IP issues, to the users of the EU trade mark and design registration systems.
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As of 03 August 2020, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) is part of TMclass and DesignClass. URSB will now use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass as well as the list of terms from the harmonised database of product indications (HDBPI) in DesignClass.
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On 30 July 2020, under the framework of the European Cooperation Project (ECP8) ‘European Network of Authenticities’, the Municipality of Thessaloniki (Greece) became the first certified ‘Authenticity’.
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