Cyprus joins DesignView

After the recent incorporations to the trademarks finder TMView (Tunisia joined last October 20th) and to the trademarks classification tool TMClass (Iceland and Montenegro), OHIM has announced that Cyprus joins DesignView.

Since last November 10th, the Department of Companies Registration and Official Receiver (DRCOR) which is part of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of the Republic of Cyprus has made available the data of their designs in the search DesignView.

The union of Cyprus to the search tool is a further confirmation of the signal of adjustment of industrial property in today’s modern economy, mainly characterized by strong globalization.

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2014-11-18T10:43:02+02:00Categories: Industrial Designs, Press release|Tags: , , |

Asean Tmview: trademark’s finder for Asian countries

As a matter of logic, the best advice an IP professional can give before registering a trademark is to ensure that the trademark is viable.

This trademark viability study is very common in our daily work routine, in which we often use IT tools for the consultation and searching of registered and filed trademarks, both pay tools (only for professional use) and free tools, which can be used by everyone.

One of the most powerful and also free tools to realize this trademark search is the TMVIEW platform: cooperation project between OHIM, WIPO and national and regional trademark offices in the EU which allows making online trademark searching among all adhering offices.

After the huge success that this trademarks locator has reached (comprising more than 30 countries) now has come its Asian version: Asean TmView, officially announces last 26th of August in Singapur.

This is how the trademark locator looks like on its official website:

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2019-04-19T06:20:19+02:00Categories: Press release, Trademarks|Tags: , |

OHIM.Trademarks and designs registering all over EU

OHIM, situated en Alicante (Spain) is the agency in charge of registering trade marks (CTMs) and designs (RCDs) that are valid all over the European Union: 27 member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom.

In this corporate video, from OAMItubes’s channel, we can see the reason why is very important to register trademark and designs and a few practical examples as the spanish company, Hispanitas shoes and handbags.

2019-04-19T06:20:44+02:00Categories: Patents and trademarks|Tags: |