Staand comité

Samenvatting WIPO van de "meeting of WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT), from May 7 to 11, 2007:  

Industrial Designs:  This exercise is intended to map the industrial design protection landscape of member states and to explore the borderlines between marks, industrial designs and copyright.

Protection of State Emblems and Names and Abbreviations of Non-Governmental Organizations: At this occasion, the secretariat demonstrated a test version of a new on-line searchable database containing some 2,400 records of protected state emblems and names, abbreviations and emblems of intergovernmental organizations.

New Types of Marks: This exchange, which will continue at the forthcoming 18th session in respect of other types of marks, such as motion marks, position marks, hologram marks, slogans, smell, feel and taste marks, is expected to result in a set of practices for member states relating to the representation of those types of marks in trademark office procedures.

Trademark Opposition: Delegates worked on the grounds of opposition, and examined the experience of SCT members with regard to pre-registration or post-registration opposition. Other issues that were addressed in that context include third-party observations made in the course of opposition procedures, cooling off periods allowing for settlement negotiations, member states' experience with introducing new opposition systems and the effect the abolition of office examination as to prior rights can have on the number of oppositions filed.

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