RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CTMs FEES (March 2009)

 

Next May, the official fees incurred for filing and registering a Community Trademark will be reduced from EUR 1 600 to EUR 900, which represents a 44% reduction.

 

This new schedule of fees will be effective on the day following the publication in the EU Official Journal of the regulation to be adopted by the Commission, i.e. at the beginning of May according to the OHIM. 

 

 

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CONFERENCE: Strategy and Intellectual Property : A Powerful (and often neglected) Weapon  to Leverage Growth (February 2009)

 

 

Claude GUIU, President Of JurisPatent, will give a conference on 9 February at ESSEC Business School, Paris on the theme of IP as a means to leverage growth.

 

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Focus

 

Claude GUIU, President of JurisPatent, hailed by French newspaper Le Journal du Palais de Bourgogne as a "Patent Man" ("Breveteur patenté"), in an article which traces back the history of the IP firm he set up several decades ago.

 

To read the article, click on the following link: Article on Claude GUIU from Le Journal du Palais de Bourgogne

 

 

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Joint Committee held in Dijon for an International IP Cooperation between France and Taïwan (September 2008)

A joint committee presided by the Directors General of the TIPO in Taiwan – Mrs Mei-Hua WANG – and of the INPI in France – Mr BATTISTELLI, was held in Dijon from 7 to 9 September 2008.

 

Going back to 1998, when France was the first foreign country to sign a bilateral technical cooperation agreement with Taiwan, the sustained relationships between the two countries has aimed at helping French corporations to have their IP rights respected on the booming economic market of Taiwan through several actions:

 

• harmonizing the legislations to avoid legal distortions,
• training experts, judges, custom officers, IP actors,
• implementing of common actions against counterfeiting.
  

Today, JurisPatent is happy that Taiwan has a reliable legal framework which should encourage French IP entrepreneurship…

 

 

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New collaborator at JurisPatent:

We have the pleasure to welcome Mr. Olivier NISSOU, a legal consultant specialised in Intellectual Property, who has joined our Legal Department in July 2008.

 

 

 

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LIBERALIZATION OF TOP LEVEL DOMAIN NAMES (July 2008)

 

The Board of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has recently approved of the expansion of top level domain names, which should be effective in the second quarter of 2009. The current 21 top level domain names, such as the most famous .com, or .eu, will have to rub shoulders with new names that may vary infinitely, thereby leading the way to endless possibilities to customize Internet addresses.

 

 

Indeed it will be possible to file top level domain names as different as the generic designations of one’s business segment (.furniture, .translation, etc.), the name of one’s firm or city, whether it be in latin characters or not, which is also new.

 

 

New opportunities will open up, which are very likely to foster trademark infringement acts, even though only the trademark owners will be allowed to file their won trademark as top level domain names.

 

 

Despite the safeguards designed by the ICANN – which reserves the right to refuse names contrary to public morality and order, which will rely on an international arbitration body to settle litigation problems and which intends to put up for auction the names several parties whic to acquire – this liberalization means that new investments are looming large for companies careful to protect their trademarks and ready to buy away the spectre of cybersquatting…

 

 

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The London Agreement: What Impact on Translation Requirements? (click here for more)

 

 

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OUR PRESENTATION:

 

With its 30 years of experience in Intellectual Property, Cabinet GUIU - JURISPATENT®  is dedicated to offering the best-quality service to protect your creations, your inventions and - more generally - your ideas, which will make your future.

 

We think that your intellectual property is so valuable that it requires to be taken care of by specialists. This is why you will deal with professional representatives before the French, the European and the international Intellectual Property Offices. They will:

 

 advise you,

 assist you,

 represent you

 

for the grant, the maintenance, the exploitation and the defence of:

 

- your industrial property titles (patent, trademark, design)

- your intellectual property titles (copyrights, logos, domain names, competition regulations, consumer law, software, data bases,...)

- your titles on any related issue (registered designation of origin, geographical description, franchise,...)

 

in France or abroad.

 

 and draft all related contracts.

 

Concerned to offer you the best services, we are conveniently located in several French cities - Paris, Dijon, Strasbourg - and we work in partnership with about fifty correspondents all over the world.

 

We are the active members of the following associations and federations:

 

- CNCPI: French Intellectual Property Attorneys Company

- AIPPI: International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property

- ACPI: Association for the IP Attorneys

- FICPI: International Federation of IP Attorneys

- GRAPI: Intellectual Property Association of the Rhône-Alpes area

- FNDE: French Specialists in Industrial Property Association

- FNCEJ: French Federation of the Court Experts

- Bourgogne Innovation (promotion of innovation in Burgundy)

- uB-Filiale (promotion of technological transfer and development in Burgundy)

- Bourgogne Entreprendre (promotion of the creation of firms in Burgundy)

 

- : International Federation of IP Attorneys

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