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The proposals to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 (the Community Design Regulation) and in parallel to recast Directive 98/71/EC (the Design Directive) aim to align the design protection system in the EU with the digital age and make it more accessible and efficient for applicants. In terms of digitalisation, the proposed update of the requirements for representing designs would allow applicants to file new digital design types (e.g. by using 3D printing technologies). In terms of efficiency ...

The Commission, the Council and the European Parliament (EP) have reached a second-reading agreement on the trademark reform package. Following the Legal Affairs Committee reports adopted on 3 December 2015, the EP plenary is set to approve the amended legislation and the renaming of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) as 'European Union Intellectual Property Office'. In March 2013, the Commission presented a package of proposals for amending the Trademark Regulation and ...

La Commission, le Conseil et le Parlement européen (PE) sont parvenus à un accord en deuxième lecture sur le paquet proposé en vue de réformer le système des marques. Le Conseil a accepté un grand nombre des amendements introduits par le Parlement européen. Après l'adoption, le 3 décembre 2015, des rapports de la commission des affaires juridiques, la plénière s'apprête désormais à approuver la législation modifiée ainsi que le remplacement de la dénomination "Office de l'harmonisation dans le marché ...

For more than 15 years there has been a dual system of trademark law in Europe: an EU-wide Community trademark, and harmonised national trademarks. The Commission proposal aims at more harmonisation and coordination, but does not address trademark-related concerns over free expression. The Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has put forward numerous amendments, in particular explicitly allowing to use trademarks for purposes of parody, artistic expression, crticism or comment, as well as for offering ...

The legal framework for trademarks in the EU is based on the coexistence of national trademarks systems, harmonised by a Directive since 1988, and a unitary Community Trademark, introduced in 1994 by a Regulation. In March 2013 the Commission adopted a reform package for EU trademark law.

La présente note a pour objectif de fournir une première analyse des points forts et des faiblesses de l'analyse d'impact de la Commission européenne accompagnant les propositions suivantes, présentées le 27 mars 2013 : proposition de la Commission de règlement du Parlement européen et du Conseil modifiant le règlement (CE) no 207/2009 sur la marque communautaire (COM (2013) 161); et proposition de la Commission de directive du Parlement européen et du Conseil rapprochant les législations des États ...