EUIPO

The State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania (VPB) has become the first office to implement the European Cooperation Project ‘IP User Repository (IPUR)’. The implementation in VPB took place on 31 May 2021, after an initial pilot phase of the tool was tested in Portugal, Denmark and Slovenia. [#item_full_content]...

The Academy is pleased to announce the Tuesday Webinar live broadcasts scheduled for June 2021. [#item_full_content]...

As of 31 May 2021, the General Directorate of Industrial Property of Albania (GDIP) is part of DESIGNclass and will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of product indications (HDBPI). [#item_full_content]...

The TM5 and ID5 Midterm Meetings took place online on 25-28 May, organised by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the host of this year’s meetings. [#item_full_content]...

This study analyses the economic  impact of the COVID-19 crisis on industries that use intellectual property  rights (IPRs) including trade marks, designs, patents and copyright,  intensively. [#item_full_content]...

The EU’s Council of Ministers has included IP crime among the top ten priorities in the fight against organised crime. [#item_full_content]...

In its continued efforts to make communications with customers more agile and eco-friendly the EUIPO launched a 6-month pilot on 15 May 2021 to replace attachments with links in official outgoing communications. [#item_full_content]...

Cybersquatting involves bad faith registration and/or use of another company’s trade mark or other distinctive sign in a domain name, without having any legal rights or legitimate interests in that domain name [#item_full_content]...

The latest pulse survey shows 90.53 % overall satisfaction with the EUIPO’s tools and services, 2.13 % points higher than in the 2020 User Satisfaction Survey [#item_full_content]...

The Executive Director of the EUIPO, Mr Archambeau, and the head of the Luxembourg Office for Intellectual Property (OPI), Ms Depoulain, met online on Wednesday 19 May 2021 [#item_full_content]...