This year, the customary high-level meetings organised annually in the margins of the WIPO General Assemblies in Geneva are taking place in a new virtual format.

 As from 11/7/2020 the EUIPO will become an Office of First Filing, making priority documents for designs (RCD) available in DAS.

As of 13 July 2020, the Ministry of Economy of Montenegro is part of DesignClass and will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of product indications (HDBPI) in DesignClass.

If you need to speak to the EUIPO examiner dealing with your file, call the information centre on +34 965 13 9100 during business hours (8.30 to 18.30) If our First Line staff cannot help you, they will put you through to the examiner. Should the examiner be unavailable at the time you call, your message will be passed on and the examiner will get back to you.

The Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) is the first pilot office to complete the implementation of the European Cooperation Project ‘ECP3 IP User Repository (IPUR)’.

IP Key LA and LA IPR SME Helpdesk -two EU-funded projects, have joined efforts in a set of country-focused webinars addressed to EU SMEs. Next 11 June 2020, IP experts from both projects will talk about Intellectual Property in Argentina: Tips to Manage and Protect your Intellectual Property Rights in Unprecedented Times, aiming to provide participating SMEs with essential practical information on IP protection and on its added value for businesses.

On 6-8 April 2020, the EUIPO organised a series of virtual informative sessions with intellectual property offices to review the future development of the European Cooperation Projects (ECP) during the second half of 2020 and 2021.

The National Institute of Standardization and Industrial Property of Tunisia (INNORPI) has published a practice paper concerning the examination of absolute grounds for refusal as regards figurative trade marks with purely descriptive words/expressions....

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.

The State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM) in Romania has now fully implemented the upgrade of its front office IT system, improving the e-filing for designs....