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....

Dal 14 luglio 2021 la direzione generale della proprietà intellettuale dell’Honduras (DIGEPIH) sarà integrata in TMclass.

Il 1º luglio la direzione per le Registrazioni di proprietà industriale (IPRD) del dipartimento del Commercio maltese ha installato un registro della PI nel nodo di blockchain e trasferito 60 000 iscrizioni a TMview e DesignView mediante una rete blockchain.

Dal 12 luglio 2021, l’Ufficio della proprietà intellettuale di Trinidad e Tobago (TTIPO) e l’Ufficio per il commercio e la proprietà intellettuale di Saint Vincent e Grenadine (CIPO-VC) saranno integrati in TMclass.

A partire dal 5 luglio 2021, l’Ufficio della proprietà intellettuale di Saint Kitts e Nevis (IPOSKN) utilizzerà e accetterà l’elenco di termini dell’Harmonised Database (HDB) di prodotti e servizi in 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.