As of 13 September 2021, the Belize Intellectual Property Office (BELIPO) will use and accept the list of terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in TMclass.
Following BELIPO’s decision to use the HDB, there are now 18 IP offices outside the EU that use and accept terms from this database.
The inclusion of BELIPO in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 87.
The African Union (AU) celebrates today the African Innovation Day, which serves as stimulus to promote and highlight creativity and innovation in Africa.
The EU-Georgia Intellectual Property Project (EUGIPP) has supported the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (Sakpatenti) in the development of examination guidelines for national and international design applications.
On 29 September CarIPI participated in a webinar organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce to provide practical information on the Hague System’s benefits.
This activity aims to get together, in OAPI 17 Member States, all innovation actors (academia, businesses, and public research bodies) in order to create long-term exchange platforms and establish common working plans. Those will serve to boost innovation and research and support the promotion of inventions and technological innovations
As of 13 August 2021, the Namibian Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) will be included in TMclass. BIPA will join with the alphabetical list of the Nice classification.
The inclusion of BIPA in TMclass brings the total number of participating national and regional IP offices, including ARIPO, OAPI, WIPO and the EUIPO, to 86.
On 28 September CarIPI hosted a webinar in collaboration with CPVO, UPOV and CARICOM Agricultural Division on a Regional Plant Variety System. The aim of the webinar was to increase awareness of the importance of plant variety protection to promote plant breeding activities in the region. The need for efficient systems for granting registration of plant variety rights was also addressed.
On 30 July, CarIPI organised a webinar to complement our previous online training session on Madrid System operations. During this online workshop experts in intellectual property addressed issues regarding the implementation of the Madrid Protocol.