EUIPO

The third edition of the EUIPO Trade Mark and Design Education Programme for practitioners came to its end on Wednesday, 9 June 2021. More than 50 IP practitioners from 22 EU Members States and Norway participated in this tailor-made training programme that consists of approximately 150 tuition hours combining e-learning with two 3-day online workshops. [#item_full_content]...

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). [#item_full_content]...

New and existing trends in using social media for IP infringement activities and good practices to address them [#item_full_content]...

The Executive Director Christian Archambeau reports on the record filing numbers of the first months of 2021, with around 25% increase in EU trade mark applications. [#item_full_content]...

On 31 May and 10-11 June 2021, the EUIPO welcomes users to their tenth audit on the quality of EUIPO opposition decisions (out of the eighteen SQAP audits have taken place so far). [#item_full_content]...

The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia (IPORS) has updated its methodology to include the principles of the Common Practice (CP8): Use of a trade mark in a form differing from the one registered, which was developed by the European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN). [#item_full_content]...

On the 17th of June , the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office), in collaboration with the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia, will hold an online IPforYou seminar. Experts from EUIPO will deliver presentations about relevant Intellectual Property topics aimed at IP Lawyers, paralegals and other IP professionals. [#item_full_content]...

As part of the annual Pan-European Media Campaign and to mark World Anti-Counterfeiting Day on 8 June, the EUIPO is pleased to launch the 2021 Awareness campaign RISKS AND DAMAGES POSED BY IPR INFRINGEMENT IN EUROPE in all EU countries. [#item_full_content]...

A new Out-Of-Commerce Works Portal has been launched today by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Out-of-commerce works are works, such as books, films, or visual works that are still protected by copyright but are no longer or have never been commercially available. [#item_full_content]...

The Management Board and Budget Committee meetings of the EUIPO took place online from 1 to 3 of June for the third time. [#item_full_content]...