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Tmview Goes Global the World’S Largest Free Trade Mark Database Moves Beyond the EU 02 2014 EN TMview goes global The world’s largest free trade mark database moves beyond the EU At the heart of Convergence: the Central Team Interview: Estonia takes on e-Services 02 2014 Europeantmdn news is edited by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) and is published every four months in 23 EU languages. The newsletter is aimed at Europe’s intellectual property community. It presents a review of the European Trade Mark and Design Network’s drive to share best practice, harmonise working methods and remove barriers from business. It is available in PDF format at: www.tmdn.org and www.oami.europa.eu The newsletter is produced in support of OHIM’s Strategic Plan Line of Action 6 (Development of the European Network), Key Initiatives 27, 28 and 29. For enquiries, please contact: [email protected] Index 01 Lead story TMview goes global Interview 05 Estonia takes on e-Services Network Initiatives 07 IP Offices release 3rd Common Communication Focus on Tools 09 The Enforcement Database The User perspective 11 Steering the Enforcement Database Convergence Projects 13 At the heart of convergence 15 News in Brief 19 Around Europe’s IP Offices 22 Calendar of Events 19 CF Project Portfolio Lead story TMview goes global It’s free, online and easy to use – and now, it’s bigger than ever TMview began life in 2010 as a tool concentrated on Building the world’s biggest free the EU. The original idea was to incorporate trade marks trade mark database from around the EU network into its database, allowing for easy search among the participating EU national The tool grew incrementally over the offices and OHIM. 2013 saw the final EU office – Greece next few years, adding EU national IP – enter the TMview family, but even before that high offices and growing in volume as it did water point, the tool had already been extending itself so. But in July 2013, TMview made its first throughout the largest trade mark offices of the world. big leap beyond the EU, with the incor- poration of trade marks from the Norwe- TMview was launched with trademarks from Benelux, gian and Mexican offices. Norway and the Czech Republic, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Mexico formed part of a 1.1 million Italy, Portugal, the OHIM and the WIPO – around increase, along with Cyprus and the four million trade marks in total, available in 22 EU EU’s newest member, Croatia. languages. The Mexican integration marked By August 2010, the total number of searchable trade TMview´s first steps into Latin America. marks was around five million. Spain had joined, bring- It was, remarks Miguel Angel Margáin, ing the total number of IP offices covered to nine – the Director General of the Mexican and already the tool was proving its popularity with Intellectual Property Office, a move users. During the first few months of its existence, it that had clear advantages for Mexican had already had tens of thousands of searches in its users: “TMview brings many advantages database, with users from Denmark, Italy and Spain to those who use the Mexican intellec- among the most frequent visitors. tual Property system. It allows users to 1 Lead story “It´s an institutional achievement which reinforces our own efforts in “ “IMPI, to continue with the process of modernising and improving the services we offer” Mr. Miguel Ángel Margáin Director General, IMPI (Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property) access a free database which is both as well as externally for his Office and staff. “Integration reliable and efficient, and which brings within this system is of great importance, as it offers the together trade mark information from users of the Industrial Property System in Mexico tools different IP offices around the world”. that support their industrial property portfolio manage- ment. It also supports the work of trade mark examiners, Mr Margáin stresses TMviews’s useful- in that it provides relevant information on trademarks in ness as a business analysis tool. “Users an international context, like in the case of priority and can search for trade marks which are classification information. And at the same time it offers being examined, or look at trade marks a global view of trade marks being examined”. that are registered at international level, which helps them to analyse and Integration into TMview is a collaborative effort, done monitor applications in IP offices which between the integrating office and OHIM’s techni- form part of TMview”. And TMview´s cal and international cooperation teams. The entire constant accessibility is key for Mexican process, Mr Margáin says, was a seamless one: “The users: “The tool is available 24 hours a work, which was coordinated with OHIM, was an enjoy- day, 7 days a week, in 27 languages; it able experience, underpinned by a sensible and clear provides easy access to Mexican users, work plan. The implementation was carried out in a reducing the research time needed collaborative way, involving personnel from the core before applying for a trade mark, and trade mark business and IT support from both offices. allowing users the possibility of tracking Communication was carried out via video conference the status of applications or registrations and email; each work session was brief and concise, in the other countries which form part of allowing IMPI to be integrated quickly into TMview in the TMview”. time frame laid out. It’s important to mention that both IMPI´s existing IT infrastructure and the Mexican trade The Mexican office was a genuine mark environment allowed for our integration in line pioneer in terms of its integration into with OHIM´s standards. It´s an institutional achievement TMview – becoming the first office on which reinforces our own efforts in IMPI, to continue with the American continent to join the tool. the process of modernising and improving the services Mr Margáin says it has benefits internally we offer”. 2 Lead story And that was just the start. After intense work and Morocco too marked a new challenge cooperation with the Turkish Patent Office, OHIM teams for TMview. Morocco is currently the were able to integrate 1 million Turkish trademarks into only country in Africa, and the only in the tool at the start of September 2013. After Turkey the Arab world, to take part in TMview. came Morocco and the last member of the EU club, Dounia Bouardi, Director of Cluster Greece. At this point, the tool had over 13 million trade Development and Client Relations marks. at OMPIC, the Moroccan intellec- tual property office, sees TMview, and At the end of December 2013, TMview had its single the enhanced cooperation between biggest wave of integrations. The inclusion of the OMPIC and OHIM as important assets Russian national IP office Rospatent and the United for users: “It´s the ambition of the two States Patent and Trademark Office brought in 400,000 heads of our two offices to put in place Russian marks and 6.8 million US marks, boosting concrete actions, in order to be able to TMview’s total to more than 20 million marks. At the start offer more to our clients”. TMview, for Ms of 2014, Korea became the latest office to join, “ with 2.7 Elouardi is “very important for protection million Korean trade marks. – it gives a global view”. Notably, work is continuing in OHIM to apply Arabic characters to TMview – at the moment, “TMview will definitely increase Moroccan data is integrated in French. Ms Elouardi agrees that the linguistic KIPO’s examination quality” dimension is very important for them: Mr, Kyeong Ho Kang, “It´s important to be able to integrate Director of Trade Mark Examination Policy, many languages, and we are very “ KIPO (Korean Intellectual Property Office) happy to work together on this”. “It´s the ambition of the two “ heads of our two offices This was a major milestone for the team involved in the to put in place concrete project, as the Korean implementation was a large and complicated project, with Korean characters having actions, in order to be able to be accounted for in the integration. But it has had “to offer more to our clients” concrete results. “It is of great help to Korean compa- Dounia Elouardi, nies seeking trademark applications overseas”, says Director of Cluster Development and Kyeong Ho Kang, the Director of Trade Mark Examina- Client Relations, OMPIC tion Policy Division at the Korean Intellectual Property (Moroccan Intellectual Property Office) Office. “They can reduce the cost of searching and increase their chances of success in obtaining trade- A business intelligence tool with a mark registration”. global perspective Mr Hang says that TMview helps examiners within KIPO TMview functions as a source of business as well as users outside it. “KIPO has rejected trade- intelligence as well as a pre-clearance mark applications which imitated well-known trade- tool, allowing users to see what is on the mark in Korea and overseas. TMview will serve as one of market, and giving valuable information effective tools for KIPO’s examiners to find out whether about trade marks in different econo- trademarks filed in Korea are similar and/or identical to mies and regions. It is updated daily ones already filed for application/registration in other by participating trademark offices, and nations (of course, this does not necessarily mean that allows users to check the availability of KIPO rejects trademarks just because they were filed their ideas for a trade mark name, find in other countries). Furthermore, KIPO examiners can out the goods and services protected refer to other offices’ examination results in determin- by other trade marks and to receive ing the registrability of applied marks in Korea, which updates on selected trade marks for are identical and/or similar to marks filed in other offices.
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