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European Union Intellectual Property Office
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO; french: links=no, Office de l'Union européenne pour la propriété intellectuelle), founded in 1994, is the European Union Agency responsible for the registration of the European Union trade mark (EUTM) (formerly known as "community trade mark") and the registered Community design (RCD), two unitary intellectual property rights valid across the 27 Member States of the EU. Every year, it registers an average of 135 000 EU trade marks and close to 100 000 designs. The EUIPO is also responsible for maintaining an Orphan Works Registry. Registered works have certain permitted acts under the Orphan Works Directive. The EUIPO is based in Alicante, on the south-east coast of Spain, and there are five working languages at the Office – English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The office also processes trade mark and design applications in 23 official languages of the EU. EUIPO was formerly known as the Office for Harmonizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been described as a ''sui generis'' political entity (without precedent or comparison) combining the characteristics of both a federation and a confederation. Containing 5.8per cent of the world population in 2020, the EU generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around trillion in 2021, constituting approximately 18per cent of global nominal GDP. Additionally, all EU states but Bulgaria have a very high Human Development Index according to the United Nations Development Programme. Its cornerstone, the European Union Customs Union, Customs Union, paved the way to establishing European Single Market, an internal single market based on standardised European Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office For Harmonization In The Internal Market
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO; french: links=no, Office de l'Union européenne pour la propriété intellectuelle), founded in 1994, is the European Union Agency responsible for the registration of the European Union trade mark (EUTM) (formerly known as "community trade mark") and the registered Community design (RCD), two unitary intellectual property rights valid across the 27 Member States of the EU. Every year, it registers an average of 135 000 EU trade marks and close to 100 000 designs. The EUIPO is also responsible for maintaining an Orphan Works Registry. Registered works have certain permitted acts under the Orphan Works Directive. The EUIPO is based in Alicante, on the south-east coast of Spain, and there are five working languages at the Office – English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The office also processes trade mark and design applications in 23 official languages of the EU. EUIPO was formerly known as the Office for Harmonizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Established In 1994
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trademark Law Organizations
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies products or services from a particular source and distinguishes them from others. The trademark owner can be an individual, business organization, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, a voucher, or on the product itself. Trademarks used to identify services are sometimes called service marks. The first legislative act concerning trademarks was passed in 1266 under the reign of Henry III of England, requiring all bakers to use a distinctive mark for the bread they sold. The first modern trademark laws emerged in the late 19th century. In France, the first comprehensive trademark system in the world was passed into law in 1857. The Trade Marks Act 1938 of the United Kingdom changed the system, permitting registration based on "intent-to-use", creating an examination based process, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intellectual Property Organizations
Intellectual property organizations are organizations that are focused on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property law concepts. This includes international intergovernmental organizations that foster governmental cooperation in the area of copyrights, trademarks and patents (such as organizations based on or founded by treaty), as well as non-governmental, non-profit organizations, lobbying organizations, think tanks, notable committees, and professional associations. International, general organisations * World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) * African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) * ''Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle'' (OAPI) or African Intellectual Property Organization National patent offices Regional, patent-related organisations * Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) * European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg) * Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Union Trademark Law
Trade mark law of the European Union is governed by European Union law together with national law within those countries which are also member states of the European Union. Trade marks may be registered within individual countries, or across the whole of the EU (by means of a European Union trade mark). In the case of a European Trademark is granted a unitary character that applies protection for that mark across the whole of the EU with certain exceptions. Exceptions include but not limited to: specific language conflicts in a particular reason (see the "Combit" v "Commit" case for example ) as well as the case where there was a previously granted national trademark that would conflict in the case of a given EUTM (article 138 Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R1001 ). Within EU member states, national law implements Directives so that the law governing national registrations in each jurisdiction is more or less equivalen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In The European Union
Events in the year 1994 in the European Union. Incumbents * President of the European Council – Andreas Papandreou (Jan – Jun 1994), Helmut Kohl (July – Dec 1994) * Commission President – Jacques Delors * Council Presidency – Greece (Jan – Jun 1994), Germany (July – Dec 1994) Events January * 1 January ** Greece takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. ** Stage II of economic and monetary union begins, with the establishment of the European Monetary Institute (EMI). ** The agreement establishing the European Economic Area (EEA) enters into force. February * 19 February – The court of Auditors publishes the special report concerning controls of irregularities and fraud in the agricultural area. March * 9–10 March – The Committee of the Regions, set up by the Treaty of the European Union, holds its inaugural session. Jacques Blanc is elected chairman. * 29 March – An informal meeting of foreign ministers is held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TM-XML
The Trade Mark Extensible Markup Language (TM-XML) is an XML open standard for the trademark business and for the exchange of trademark information between the Industrial Property Offices and its partners or users. Objectives The initial objective was the definition of XML Standard for trademark information exchange. During the specifications and after the creation of WIPO Standard ST.66, other objectives have been added as following: * Define XML Standards for Trade Mark Offices and Trade Mark Business * Propose Useful Outcomes as Base for the Creation of WIPO Standards * Define Trademark Web Service Standards * Provide Examples of Implementations and Tools * Share Experiences, Practices and Knowledge * Promote Collaboration and Harmonization of Trade Mark Information and Knowledge Representations * Prepare the Emerging Semantic Web for the Trade Mark Domain in the Intellectual Property Context (hTrademark Microformat, TM-RDF, TM-OWL) History TM-XML was defined by a working gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intellectual Property Organisation
Intellectual property organizations are organizations that are focused on copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property law concepts. This includes international intergovernmental organizations that foster governmental cooperation in the area of copyrights, trademarks and patents (such as organizations based on or founded by treaty), as well as non-governmental, non-profit organizations, lobbying organizations, think tanks, notable committees, and professional associations. International, general organisations * World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) * African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) * '' Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle'' (OAPI) or African Intellectual Property Organization National patent offices Regional, patent-related organisations * Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO) * European Patent Organisation (EPO or EPOrg) * Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Plant Variety Office
The Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) is an agency of the European Union, located in Angers, France. It was established in 1994. Its task is to administer a system of plant variety rights, also known as plant breeders' rights, a form of intellectual property right relating to plants. The CPVO manages the largest system of plant variety rights in the world. Since the creation of the CPVO in 1995, the office has received about 78,000 applications, of which over 62,000 were granted, with over 30,000 rights currently in force. Community plant variety right Plant variety rights allow plant breeders to protect new varieties or types of plants. The CPVO was created to encourage the creation of new plant varieties in the European Union, through the provision of better intellectual property protection for plant breeders. The Community plant variety right gives to its holder an exclusive right to market the protected variety within the territory of the European Union. The Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benelux Office For Intellectual Property
(BBIE)french: Office Benelux de la Propriété intellectuelle , image = Boip.logo.115x100.gif , image_border = , size = 115 , alt = , caption = , map = , msize = , malt = , mcaption = , abbreviation =BOIPBX , formation = 25 February 2005 , extinction = , type = , status = , purpose = , headquarters = The Hague, Netherlands , location = , region_served =Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg , membership = , language = English, Dutch, French , leader_title =Director General , leader_name =Edmond Simon , main_organ = , parent_organization = , affiliations = , num_staff =92 (2013) , num_volunteers = , budget =€14 million (2013) , website Official web site, remarks = The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) is the registration office for trademarks and designs in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The BOIP is the legal successor of the Benelux Trademarks Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OHIM
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO; french: links=no, Office de l'Union européenne pour la propriété intellectuelle), founded in 1994, is the European Union Agency responsible for the registration of the European Union trade mark (EUTM) (formerly known as "community trade mark") and the registered Community design (RCD), two unitary intellectual property rights valid across the 27 Member States of the EU. Every year, it registers an average of 135 000 EU trade marks and close to 100 000 designs. The EUIPO is also responsible for maintaining an Orphan Works Registry. Registered works have certain permitted acts under the Orphan Works Directive. The EUIPO is based in Alicante, on the south-east coast of Spain, and there are five working languages at the Office – English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The office also processes trade mark and design applications in 23 official languages of the EU. EUIPO was formerly known as the Office for Harmonizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
