As of 26 February 2024, the Belize Intellectual Property Office (BELIPO) has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.
With BELIPO on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 76 participating offices.
With the addition of more than 19.966 trade marks from BELIPO, TMview now provides information and access to more than 120 million trade marks in total.
From 20-23 February, a delegation of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) travelled to Chisinau, Moldova, to explore the current status of the intellectual property (IP) system in the Republic of Moldova. While there, it held technical discussions to identify the priorities and needs of the interested parties in preparation for the first work plan of the EU4IP project.
On 20 February, the CarIPI project met online with CARIFORUM IP Offices and Ministries of Education to present the results of the ‘Creativity and IP in Schools’ project and to introduce the materials for teachers and students based on the EUIPO’s IdeasPowered@school project and adapted to the Caribbean context.
On 12 March 2024, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project (CarIPI) and the Belize Intellectual Property Office partnered with UN Women and WIPO (Indigenous and Local Community Women Entrepreneurship Program) to deliver the webinar ‘Inspiring Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs through Creativity and Innovation’.
AL-INVEST Verde IPR will participate in a seminar on geographical indications (GIs) in MERCOSUR countries, organised by the IP Key Latin America cooperation project. The main objective of the participation is to announce the launch of the first phase of the AL-INVEST Verde IPR mentoring programme, ALINVmentor I.
The international webinar is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay through the Department of Creative Industries (Dicrea) of the Creative Economy Area of the National Directorate of Culture, and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay through the National Directorate of Industrial Property (DNPI