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https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/trade-marks/before-applying/types-of-trade-marks
III. SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE
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- Publications related to different business procedures and industrial design information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
Check on EUIPO ONLINE.
- Cooperation with universities, technology, and innovation support centers, etc.
Academic Initiatives
Pan-European Seal Programme
In the 2024 the Pan-European Seal Programme (PES) reached 160 partner universities from 27 EU countries and 11 EPC member states cooperating with the EUIPO and the EPO. The EUIPO is also collaborating with 7 Universities outside the EU/EPC via bilateral agreements, namely with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Tanzania. Approximately 90 high-achieving graduates benefited from a year-long, paid traineeship at the EUIPO in 2024 through the PES programme. Together with the Young Professionals programme, a total of 110 trainees were welcomed at the EUIPO.
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Post-traineeship professional opportunities:
Exchange Programme
It allows PES trainees that are currently working at the EUIPO to apply for an exchange opportunity and second traineeship at the European Patent Office (EPO), and for the EPO Pan-European Seal trainees to apply for an exchange traineeship at the EUIPO. Since the inception of the programme and until October 2024 in total 52 EPO trainees have been welcomed at the EUIPO and 100 EUIPO trainees at the EPO respectively creating a strong collaboration between the 2 Offices and disseminate IP and its awareness among youngsters.
Talent Bank
This is an online platform that allows public and private partners, including law and consultancy firms, companies, EU and international organisations, national institutions, and universities to offer traineeships and/or jobs to the EUIPO Trainees alumni seeking further career opportunities following their traineeship at the EUIPO. In 2024, the total number of associated partners reached 37, and more than 140 job offers have been published in the tool since its inception.
Additional activities within the Network of Intellectual Property Academies (NIPA):
NIPA Annual meeting
The Network of IP Academies (NIPA) consists of the PES university members, the Talent Bank Associate Partners and the national IP offices. EU institutions and European university networks can also join as observers. NIPA members meet once a year to discuss an overview of the year that has passed, the traineeship programme, improvements and additional synergies that can occur between them via common projects with the EUIPO. The idea is that this event takes place after newly adopted EUIPO projects are communicated and shared with NIPA members. The Annual meeting was held on 2– 3 December 2024 in a hybrid format at the EUIPO premises with more than 100 participants with very positive feedback.
Almost 35 000 participants attended any of the multiple training events organized by the EUIPO Academy in 2023 or completed courses in the Academy Learning Portal, with an approval rate of 89%.
Major IP and non-IP events
The third edition of the EUIPO Intensive IP Educational Programme (IIPEP) offered for free to all the PES Universities’ students and the EU National IP Offices, in collaboration with WIPO, EPO, CPVO, European Commission DG AGRI, and DG RTD, lasted 10 days including sessions on trade marks, designs, plant varieties, geographical indications and patents with almost 2 000 registered participants and with an average of 800 connections per session.
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The Academy has collaborated with BSD and BOD the Business Support Department and the Business Operation Department through the Academy Knowledge Circle to improve the impact of webinars and to offer, when possible, the webinar subtitled in the 5 working languages of the Office in the ALP. This initiative has aimed to increase users' knowledge on procedural aspects.
School and University visits
9 virtual school visits were organised, with an average satisfaction rate of 90%. A total of 261 students between 12 and 18 years old attended. . A project was launched to adapt the programme to an even younger audience. The programme is now aimed at groups of students aged 10 to 18, with the content varying according to the age of the participants. As for the Virtual University Visits, 83 Universities, participated in the 8 visits organized between January and December. These sessions were attended by a total of 748 students and obtained an overall satisfaction rate of 95%.
Education Programmes
The ETMD EP for Practitioners 2023/2024 programme (5th edition) opened in October 2023 and was fully booked (60 participants). The programme will run until June 2024, including e-learning and 21 IP labs consisting of practical activities.The The ETMD EP for Paralegals 2023/2024 (4th edition): 60 external participants coming from 19 EU Member States and 5 EUIPO staff.
In cooperation with CD, a A new Learning Wallet (LW) on Geographical Indications was drafted and added to the four IP topics: Basics on IP; Intermediate on IP; Design; Absolute Grounds which were drafted for the seminars organised with the “European Institute of Innovation and Technology” (EIT, A body of the European Commission). The LW on IP matters are available in the EUIPO website for everyone.
eE-Learning content in the EUIPO Academy Learning Portal
There were over 235 000 visits to the EUIPO Academy Learning Portal in 2024, more than 20 000 hours were spent on courses by our users which resulted in almost almost 10 000 Course Certificates issued. Relevant online content continued to be made available to the public in 2024, including the creation and production of of Registered EU Designs in a nutshell to have a course in line with the Desing Design Legislative Reform Phase I, and of IP monetisation opportunities, an online diagnosing resource to inventory a company´s IP assets and weighing how can those assets generate revenue.
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WIPO Standard ST.3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations:
Implemented
WIPO Standard Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs:
Implemented, with some necessary customization, as per some IP Offices practices.
WIPO Standard ST.6080: Bibliographic data relating to trade marks: industrial designs
Implemented
WIPO Standard ST.61: The exchange of trademark legal status data: No plan to implement 81: Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes
Implemented (partiallyWIPO Standard ST.63: Content and layout of trademark gazettes: Implemented (partly, the publications of EU trademarks are done daily and only on the web in electronic format - PDF files)
WIPO Standard ST.6686: Processing of trademark industrial design information using XML: Implemented, with some necessary customization to align with EUIPO business practices.
Implemented
WIPO Standard ST.6787: Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks: ImplementedThe exchange of industrial design legal status data
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.6888: Electronic management of sound marks: representation of industrial designs
Implemented
WIPO Standard Standard ST.90: Recommendation for processing and communicating Intellectual Property data using Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces):
Implemented (EUIPO external-facing APIs follow most of the recommendations described in the standard)
WIPO Standard Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images:
Implemented (further alignment with the standard after the the EU design legislative reform)
WIPO Standard Standard ST.96: Processing of Industrial Property information using XML:
Implemented (only in the context of International Designs)
- Other WIPO Standards Related to Trademarks
WIPO Standard ST.66: Processing of trademark information using XML: :
Implemented, with some necessary customization to align with EUIPO business practices
WIPO Standard ST.97: Recommendation for processing of Intellectual Property Data using JSON:
Planning to implement (the on-going ST.97 improvements in the context of the API Task Force will facilitate the adoption of this standard when the relevant use case is identified).
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