The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia (IPORS) has updated its methodology to include the principles of the Common Practice (CP8): Use of a trade mark in a form differing from the one registered, which was developed by the European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN).

The TM5 and ID5 Midterm Meetings took place online on 25-28 May, organised by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the host of this year’s meetings....

This study analyses the economic  impact of the COVID-19 crisis on industries that use intellectual property  rights (IPRs) including trade marks, designs, patents and copyright,  intensively....

The EU’s Council of Ministers has included IP crime among the top ten priorities in the fight against organised crime....

In its continued efforts to make communications with customers more agile and eco-friendly the EUIPO launched a 6-month pilot on 15 May 2021 to replace attachments with links in official outgoing communications....

Cybersquatting involves bad faith registration and/or use of another company’s trade mark or other distinctive sign in a domain name, without having any legal rights or legitimate interests in that domain name...

The latest pulse survey shows 90.53 % overall satisfaction with the EUIPO’s tools and services, 2.13 % points higher than in the 2020 User Satisfaction Survey...

The Executive Director of the EUIPO, Mr Archambeau, and the head of the Luxembourg Office for Intellectual Property (OPI), Ms Depoulain, met online on Wednesday 19 May 2021...

As of 20 May 2021, the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia (LRPV) has made its trade mark images available in TMview. The images have been added to the visual search tool within TMview, which allows users to search for trade mark images from the integrated countries....

As of today, the 19 May 2021, TMview will include trade mark data made available by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), taking the total number of trade marks in the search tool from 62 to over 90 million from 75 participating IP Offices.
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