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The @WIPO AMC & @Ciarb are hosting a conference on "Protecting Value and Promoting Growth: Mediation and Arbitration for Fashion and Luxury Disputes" on 30 September 2025 – MARQUES members benefit from a discount on in-person and virtual fees marques.org/blogs/class46/…

You can now book your place at the rescheduled MARQUES Judges Meeting in Rome on 2 October 2025: find out more and sign up here! marques.org/events/2025100…

Episode 25 of the Talking MARQUES podcast is all about this year's Annual Conference, which takes place in The Hague from 16-19 September 2025. It features Willem Leppink, Liselott Enström and Dieuwerke van der Schalk marques.org/podcast/

The 2025 MARQUES Annual Conference, "Brand Changes in an International Context", will be held in The World Forum, The Hague, Netherlands, from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 September 2025. Find out more & register here marques.org/events/2025The… The Early Bird offer runs until 27 June!

MARQUES is pleased to announce that the Italian “Meet the Judges” Symposium has been rescheduled to take place at the OFF/OFF Theatre, at Via Giulia 20 in Rome, on Thursday 2 October 2025. Registration will open soon! marques.org/blogs/class46/…

On 8 May 2025, Advocate General Szpunar delivered the highly anticipated Opinion in the Joined Cases Mio and USM Haller concerning copyright protection for works of applied art. Evert van Gelderen of the MARQUES Copyright Team summarises the Opinion marques.org/blogs/class99/…

New leadership team for MARQUES: at the Spring Meeting, Claudia Pappas became Chair, Leo Longauer 1st Vice-Chair and Tapio Blanc 2nd Vice-Chair. Read more here: marques.org/blogs/class46/…

It seems to have been a busy year on the trade mark front! Join us and @MarquesIP on 25 March @UCLLaws to meet and question some of the judges that are deciding our trade mark disputes. Full details at: ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20….

Question the Trade Mark Judges, hosted by UCL-IBIL and MARQUES, will take place in London on 25 March at 6.00 pm and will feature judges including Nina Korjus, Mrs Justice Joanna Smith & Al Skilton. Find out more and book your place here ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

Watch the first in a new series of videos made by members of the MARQUES Copyright Team!

Ordinary shops remain the most common location for counterfeit goods sales investigated by Trading Standards. Investigations into social media and private residences continue to increase Read more in our Trading Standards Successes Survey: bit.ly/TSSuccess23-24

The @OECDtrade Report on the Trade in Counterfeit Goods and the UK Economy has been published today. The report estimates that in 2021, the value of counterfeit and pirated goods imported into the UK amounted to GBP 7.1 billion, equivalent to 1.5% of total UK imports.

BoA erred in finding likelihood of confusion between #EUTM application for DAOgest and earlier mark DAOSIN as signs only have average visual & phonetic similarity - EU General Court in Case T‑396/23, Stada Arzneimittel AG v EUIPO/Bioiberica, SAU curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

The EU General Court issued a 3rd decision in the 8-year dispute arising from an opposition to this #EUTM application, based on the earlier mark ONE - Case T‑359/23, Société des produits Nestlé SA v EUIPO/Amigüitos pets & life, SA curia.europa.eu/juris/document… Opposition rejected!

#EUGeneralCourt confirms that @Chiquita's blue and yellow oval cannot be protected as an #EUtrademark for fresh fruit 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

#EUGeneralCourt: The figurative sign consisting of the phrase ‘RUSSIAN WARSHIP, GO F* *K yourself’ in Russian and English cannot be registered as an @EUTrademark 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…

In Case T‑200/23, Domingo Alonso Group, SL v EUIPO/Ald Automotive, SA (arising from an invalidity case), the EU General Court upheld a finding of likelihood of confusion between this #EUTM and this earlier Spanish mark curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

No acquiescence due to lack of evidence of actual awareness of mark - EU General Court upholds BoA decision in #EUTM invalidity case - Case T‑136/23, Vintae Luxury Wine Specialists SLU v EUIPO/Grande Vitae GmbH curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

No likelihood of confusion between this #EUTM application for G&S in classes 34 & 35 and earlier mark KING's for identical/similar G&S - EU General Court in Case T‑118/23, House of Prince A/S v EUIPO/Andrzej Biały curia.europa.eu/juris/document…