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Christmas is only a few weeks away! Now is the time for including gifts for your loved ones to your shopping lists. But as you browse through busy stores or infinite lists of products online looking for bargains,…
The EUIPO is establishing an important feature, a new initiative that they call “a ground-breaking step in global supply chain product authentication”: “EBSI-ELSA”.As reported in our blog article of 29 June 2023,…
Be honest - Have you ever bought counterfeit goods or illegally consumed digital content?On 12 June 2023, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published an interesting article on counterfeits…
The oldest perfume manufacturer in the world and its battle for a statutory trademark protection Source: GPTO website – picture of the company sign of Johann Maria Farina from 1868 „Johann Maria Farina…
In June 2019, Europol and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published the first EU-wide intellectual property crime threat assessment, building upon two previous joint situation reports on…
In March 2019, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a study estimating the total value of counterfeit and pirated…
Greek Police has had a productive month. With a massive destruction of seized counterfeits, they are showing the counterfeiters they are a force to be reckoned with. On March 17, 2016 Hellenic Police conducted a…
For IPR, both an increase of the reporting countries and cases was observed (22,543 cases in 2012 and 24,092 cases in 2013). In 2013 one of the striking features was that more than half of the reported…
1. National Trademark Filings in Germany
The German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO) in its Annual Report published the…
