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27 MAY 2022

Trademarks - EU Directive - Application Process

What has changed regarding the application for registration of a Trademark in Cyprus, after the transposition of the Directive (EU) 2015/2436 for Trademarks. read more

06 JUL 2021

Legal expenses list for trademark procedures

14 APR 2021

Common Communication CP11 New Types of Marks: Examination of Formal Requirements and Grounds for Refusal

The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network have now agreed on an additional Common Practice on trade marks with the aim of providing guidance with regard to the examination of formal requirements and grounds for refusal and/or invalidity of new types of trade mark, namely, sound, motion, multimedia and hologram marks, and the new ways of representing them. read more

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31 MAR 2021

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Common Communication CP12 Evidence in Trade Mark Appeal Proceedings

The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network have now agreed on an additional Common Practice/Common Recommendations document on trademarks with the aim of providing general principles regarding evidence in trade mark appeal proceedings. read more

15 OCT 2020

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Common communication 8 Use of a Trade Mark in a form differing from the one registered

The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Trade Mark and Design Network have now agreed on an additional Common Practice with regard to the use of trade marks in a form differing from the one registered, with the aim of identifying general principles for assessing when the use of a trade mark in a form differing from the one registered alters its distinctive character. read more

Tutorial - Modernization of the trademarks photo

12 OCT 2020

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Tutorial - Modernization of the trademarks

View the tutorial to get information on the modernization of the trademarks in Cyprus following the Trademarks law amendment. read more

Tutorial - Invalidity and revocation of a trademark photo

14 AUG 2020

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Tutorial - Invalidity and revocation of a trademark

View the tutorial to get information on the invalidity and revocation of a trademark. read more

23 APR 2020

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Common Communication on the representation of new types of trade marks

Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (hereinafter referred to as the “new Trade Mark Directive”). read more

02 APR 2020

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Common communication and practice CP9 ''Distinctiveness of three-dimensional marks (shape marks) containing verbal and/or figurative elements''

The IP offices of the European Trade Mark and Design Network have now agreed on a Common Practice with regard to the distinctiveness of three-dimensional marks (shape marks) containing verbal and/or figurative elements when the shape is not distinctive in itself, with the aim of establishing a minimum threshold for distinctiveness of shape marks when the shape itself is non-distinctive. read more

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Trademarks - EU Directive - Application Process

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Legal expenses list for trademark procedures

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Common Communication CP11 New Types of Marks: Examination of Formal Requirements and Grounds for Refusal

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Common Communication CP12 Evidence in Trade Mark Appeal Proceedings

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Common communication 8 Use of a Trade Mark in a form differing from the one registered

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Tutorial - Modernization of the trademarks

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Tutorial - Invalidity and revocation of a trademark

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Common Communication on the representation of new types of trade marks

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Common communication and practice CP9 ''Distinctiveness of three-dimensional marks (shape marks) containing verbal and/or figurative elements''

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