{"id":68889,"date":"2016-03-23T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0cbd704df4d2b8dfc9b4f33e8e6a004d"},"modified":"2016-03-23T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:30:14","slug":"news-story-changes-to-eu-wide-trade-marks-come-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68889","title":{"rendered":"News story: Changes to EU-wide trade marks come into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A range of changes come into force today (23 March) relating to the EU-wide trade mark and the Office, based in Spain, that maintains the register of those EU-wide trade marks (as well as registered Community designs).   <\/p>\n<p>Prominent changes include two name changes:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what have previously been called Community trade marks (<abbr title=\"Community trade marks\">CTMs<\/abbr>) are from today to be known as European Union trade marks (<abbr title=\"European Union trade marks\">EUTMs<\/abbr>)  <\/li>\n<li>the Office formerly known as <abbr title=\"The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market\">OHIM<\/abbr> (the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market) has from today changed its name to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (<abbr title=\"European Union Intellectual Property Office\">EUIPO<\/abbr>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other changes coming into effect today include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an overall reduction in the fees for <abbr title=\"European Union trade marks\">EUTMs<\/abbr>\n<\/li>\n<li>an end to processing applications for EU-wide trade marks via the UK\u2019s IPO<\/li>\n<li>various changes to the law, including measures to help tackle counterfeiting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, see the website of the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/\"><abbr title=\"European Union Intellectual Property Office\">EUIPO<\/abbr><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes include a renaming of EU-wide marks and the relevant EU registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}