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.

The 1 million digitised files milestone was achieved on 7 July 2021 at the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH). The total number of digitised pages stands now at approximately 18 million....

À compter du 14 juillet 2021, la direction générale de la propriété intellectuelle du Honduras (DIGEPIH) sera incluse dans TMclass.

Le 1^er juillet, la direction des enregistrements de propriété industrielle (IPRD) du département maltais du commerce a installé un registre de la PI au niveau du nœud de la chaîne de blocs et transféré 60 000 enregistrements à TMview et DesignView via un réseau de chaînes de blocs.

À compter du 12 juillet 2021, l’Office de la propriété intellectuelle de Trinité-et-Tobago (TTIPO) et l’Office du commerce et de la propriété intellectuelle de Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines (CIPO-VC) seront inclus dans TMclass.

À compter du 5 juillet 2021, l’Office de la propriété intellectuelle de Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès (IPOSKN) utilisera et acceptera la liste de termes de la Harmonised Database (base de données harmonisée des produits et services, HDB) dans TMclass.

The National Directorate of Industrial Property under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay (DNPI) has published a practice paper today on the impact of non-distinctive/weak components of trade marks in the examination of llikelihood of confusion (relative grounds for refusal).

The General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP) under the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Albania has published a practice paper on the examination of absolute grounds for refusal for figurative trade marks with purely descriptive words / expressions.

In May 2021 the EUIPO presented “The economic impact of COVID-19 crisis on IPR-intensive industries” with data until December 2020, including indicators for all intellectual property rights (IPR), trade marks (TM) , designs (DES), patents (PT) and copyright (CR).

The National Directorate of Industrial Property under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay (DNPI) has published a Practice Paper concerning the graphic representation of industrial designs.