The winners of the Creative ASEAN Furniture Design Contest will participate in an internship programme with acclaimed designer Kenneth Cobonpue in Cebu City, Philippines, on 7-8 February. Organised by ARISE+ IPR, the internship provides an opportunity for the winners to hone their skills and learn the techniques of a world-renowned designer and gain a better appreciation of the importance of protecting their designs. 

The ARISE+ IPR team organised parallel consultation meetings on trademarks, industrial designs and information technology in Bangkok on 18-20 February with representatives from the ASEAN national IP offices and the ASEAN Secretariat. The initiatives discussed in the consultation meetings are in line with the ASEAN IPR Action Plan 2016-2025.

As of 23 January 2019 the Brunei Intellectual Property Office (BruIPO) has made its trade mark and design data available to the TMview and DesignView search tools.

With BruIPO on board TMview and DesignView now contain data from 68 participating offices.

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Representatives of the Intellectual Property Offices of CARIFORUM were invited to the EUIPO headquarters in Alicante for a consultation workshop held during 10-14 December 2018.

The workshop provided for a collaborative platform that promoted and reinforced cooperation between the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Intellectual Property Offices of CARIFORUM, by means of knowledge and experience sharing sessions concerning tools and practices.

The ARISE+ IPR “Seminar on Protecting Brands, Inventions and Designs Overseas” for Myanmar IP officials and SME representatives was held in Mandalay on 11 December following the success of a similar seminar in Yangon in November.

The ARISE+ IPR management team held a consultation session with heads of the ASEAN IP offices at the 57^th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) on 27 November in Siem Reap, Cambodia. They discussed ARISE+ IPR activities from the first-year annual work plan, including a briefing on the progress of feasibility studies for an ASEAN IP academy and an ASEAN trademark registration system, both of which are in the ASEAN IPR Action Plan 2016-2025. The ARISE+ IPR team also discussed potential activities for the second-year work plan.

The ARISE+ IPR management team held a consultation session with heads of the ASEAN IP offices at the 57^th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC) on 27 November in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

This monthly newsletter compiles information on the upcoming and last activities carried out by the EUIPO in the context of the EU-Funded IP projects implemented on behalf of the European Commission.

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