News & events

Experts from the European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN) are meeting virtually for the 9th European Cooperation Projects (ECP) working groups.

The EUIPO will be holding the online sessions of the 15th Liaison Meeting on Cooperation, 24th Liaison Meeting on Trade Marks and 19th Liaison Meeting on Designs from 6 to 8 October 2020.

On 25 September, Mr Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and Mr Christian Archambeau, Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) held a virtual high-level meeting to discuss IP cooperation matters, namely to review the state of play of the bilateral cooperation activities with CNIPA, the IP Key China project implementation as well as the cooperation within the TM5 and ID5 forums.

In the framework of the EUIPO-WIPO Work Programme 2020, the Smart Button feature is now active in both DesignView and WIPO’s Global Design Database. This enables users to search in one tool and then conduct the same search in the other tool, without the need to enter the search criteria again.

The Academy is pleased to announce the Tuesday Webinar live broadcasts scheduled for October 2020.