Month: November 2020

The Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Service, has improved the service it provides to its users with the launch of a new set of modern online features for trade mark and design applications. These digital service improvements became available on 11 November 2020....

João Negrão has been unanimously appointed as President of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal by the Council of the European Union. The notification of his appointment has been published in the Official Journal of the EU....

The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia (IPORS) have updated their methodology to include the principles of the Common Practice of Relative Grounds (CP5) – Likelihood of Confusion (Impact of non-distinctive / weak components), which was developed by the European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN)....

The Executive Director of the EUIPO, Christian Archambeau, has met the Deputy Director-General of DG Trade and Chief Trade Enforcement Officer, Denis Redonnet, via videolink....

From 10 to 12 November 2020, the EUIPO organised the 11th Software Package Technical Handover workshop....

The entry into force of the Decision of the Executive Director No EX‑20‑9 will bring an important change to the Office’s official means of communication....

The TM5 and ID5 partners adopted a Joint Message on their response to COVID-19 reaffirming their commitment to assisting trade mark and design owners and users. ...

As of 09 November 2020, the Industrial Property Office of the Business Development Agency of the Principality of Monaco (MCIPO) and the Patents and Trademarks Office of the Republic of San Marino (USBM) are part of DESIGNclass....

On 30 October 2020, the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) successfully completed the digitisation of its paper dossiers relating to trade marks and designs under the ECP5 project: Capture and Store Historical Files (CSHF)....

The Estonian Intellectual Property Office (EPA), with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Projects (ECP2), has implemented an enhanced back office system....