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Reform of the European Trademark System
By AWA | Posted on January 18, 2016
After some years work on aligning and improving the European trademark system a new legislative package on trademarks has finally been accepted by the EU Parliament at the end of 2015. The new Trademark Directive is already in force, but needs to be implemented as national legislation within the next three years. The further course...
Tags: Community Trade Mark, CTM, EU Intellectual Property Office, EU Trademark, EUIPO, European Trademark, EUTMR, Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market, OHIM
Is there anything morally wrong with “Je suis Charlie”?
By AWA | Posted on January 21, 2015
In continuation of the terrible terror attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, social medias were flooded with the phrase “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) as a message of condolence, outrage and defiance, as well as support for the right to free expression. As expected, this social media wave resulted in a vast...
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