News and Articles about International Trademark Registration
Important brands have proven their strength against recession in the 5th annual Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ Top100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking released on April 2010.
Although most of the key financial indicators collapsed, the value of the top 100 brands grew 4% in 2009 to more than $2 trillion. Continue reading ‘BrandZTop100 2010′
.CO Registry has announced that will implement a group of mechanisms to secure the rights of brand owners worldwide.
Protections announced by .CO registry:
1) Sunrise process (starting in April) where owners of registered trademarks will be able to register the corresponding .CO domain before registration is opened to the general public.
2) IP Clearinghouse to assist brand owners in securing their brands in .CO during the Sunrise process.
3) Policy to rapidly take down domains in cases where phishing, pharming, malware, or other significant criminal or security threats are identified, including serial cyber-squatting. Continue reading ‘.CO Measures Before Trademark Abuse Concerns’
Among the activities of the Intellectual Property Week, on April 22 and 23 it was held in Lima, Peru, the First Intellectual Property Conference APPI 2010.
The event was organized by the Peruvian Association of Industrial Property and Copyright (APPI) in collaboration with the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (INDECOPI). Continue reading ‘Peru: First Intellectual Property Conference in Lima’
OHIM (Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market), in cooperation with the Intellectual Property Offices of UK, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Benelux, Portugal, and OMPI (Intellectual Property World Organization) has been working on TMView project which makes available to users a common repository of trademarks data. The new tool has been launched on April 13, 2010 and is accessible for free at www.tmview.europa.eu. Continue reading ‘TMView, the New Trademark Query Tool in European Union’
USTPO, the United States Patent & Trademark Office, opened a new service looking to help non-technical & first-time users called Trademark Information Network (TMIN) .One could say that this Information Network is an online training center aimed to help trademark aplicants. For now just one video, but more will be introduced during 2010 summer. Continue reading ‘USTPO Opened a Trademark Information Network (TMIN)’
During the 2009 the Internatinal Trademark Filings under WIPO’s “The Madrid System” dropped 16% in relation with 2008, and all the facts are telling us that the last global financial crisis is behind this movement. Continue reading ‘International Trademark Filings Dropped 16% in 2009 After Global Financial Crisis’
