EUIPO

On 24 August 2021, the European Union Intellectual Property Office achieved another important milestone, reaching 2 million EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations. This comes 7 years after achieving 1 million trade marks registered. [#item_full_content]...

The EUIPO has launched a new tool for the examination of International Design Registrations designating the European Union (EU). This tool has been developed in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) and is part of the back office of our examiners. [#item_full_content]...

Service to a number of the EUIPO platforms will be interrupted during the morning of Saturday 21 August to allow service upgrades. [#item_full_content]...

Registration is now open for the online Ideas Powered for business seminar. [#item_full_content]...

As of 13 August 2021, the Namibian Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) will be included in TMclass. BIPA will join with the alphabetical list of the Nice classification. [#item_full_content]...

The EUIPO’s Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund has passed its target of helping 8 000 EU SMEs with advice on IP rights and financial support for trade mark and design applications. Businesses from all EU countries have applied to the IP Voucher scheme since the beginning of the year, with the largest number of […]...

A new database has been launched to provide access to trade mark data from the Andean Community countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. [#item_full_content]...

Service to a number of the EUIPO platforms will be interrupted during the mornings of Saturday and Sunday 7-8 August to allow maintenance or service upgrades.   [#item_full_content]...

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. [#item_full_content]...

The Commerce Department of the Government of Malta (CD-IPRD), with the support of the EUIPO’s European cooperation project ECP1, has improved the electronic services available for its users. It did so by upgrading the technical platform that supports the Maltese (MT) Front Office system and migrating it to the government cloud services. [#item_full_content]...