AW7/OH: Workshop on trade marks and industrial designs

OHIM was the co-organiser of this workshop aimed at further harmonising the processing of trade marks and industrial designs as regards examination, opposition, appeal and cancellation between CARDS countries and the OHIM (EU) approach.

The workshop also gave CARDS TM and ID experts advice on harmonising a common approach. Each country provided practical examples which they had come across and proposed to the group a grant or refusal scenario. The relationship between trade marks and geographical indications, internet domains, taste marks (application for strawberry taste –problem: no graphical description), position mark, e-services (tele-shopping), etc., was also mentioned.