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The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network continue to collaborate in the context of converging trade mark and design practices. They have now agreed on an additional Common Practice document on trade marks with the aim of establishing some general principles on the comparison of goods and services, more specifically, on the treatment of terms lacking clarity and precision and the common interpretation of the Canon criteria and other factors, as well as some examples to illustrate the agreed statements.
Please visit the CP15 page on the EUIPN website for more information: https://www.tmdn.org/publicwebsite/#/practices/2718939
12/03/2025
The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network continue to collaborate in the context of converging trade mark and design practices. They have now agreed on an additional Common Practice/Common Recommendations document on trade marks with the aim of providing general principles regarding evidence in trade mark appeal proceedings, in particular, its types, means, sources and identification of relevant dates, as well as its structure and presentation, and the treatment of confidential evidence.
The new CP12 document can be accessed on: https://www.tmdn.org/#/practices/1819736
09/05/2024
The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network continue to collaborate in the context of converging trade mark and design practices. They have now agreed on an additional Common Practice document on trade marks with the aim of providing a common understanding of the general notion of bad faith and of other concepts, including terminology related to its assessment, as well as factors and scenarios that may prove relevant in the assessment.
Please visit here for more information: https://www.tmdn.org/#/practices/2537136
06/05/2024
The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network continue to collaborate in the context of converging trade mark and design practices. They have now agreed on an additional Common Practice document on trade marks with the aim of providing a common understanding on the concepts of public policy and accepted principles of morality, clarifying the relationship and the differences between these two concepts. In addition, it establishes common criteria for the assessment of whether a sign is contrary to public policy and/or to accepted principles of morality and provides illustrative examples of the criteria and the groups of signs identified.
Please visit the following link for more information on CP14 via TMDN: https://www.tmdn.org/publicwebsite/#/practices/2547782
19/04/2024