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Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
New optional search
Situation after 3 months
Blanca Arteche – Head of service DCRDS
LM– Alicante – 12/06/2008
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Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
NEW SEARCH SYSTEM: PARTICIPANTS & PRICE
(Trade Marks and Designs)
PARTICIPANTS = PRICE
• Price of optional search: 192€
• Cost per CTM:
256€
(16 countries *12€)
(16 countries *16€)
• 16 national offices participating in the system (- Benelux)
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Austria
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
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Lithuania
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
OPTIONAL SEARCH STATISTICS
(Trade Marks and Designs)
Reception
Date
CTM
Only
%
O Search
Req.
%
10 March ‘08
9 June ‘08
18,668
95.4
892
4.5
10 March ‘08
9 May ‘08
12,923
95.7
585
4.3
479
3.6
13,508
Paid 1 M
%
Total
Reception
Date
IR
Only
%
O Search
Req.
%
10 March ‘08
5 June ‘08
3,347
99. 9
3
0.1
Paid 1 M
%
Total
19,560
3,350
Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
SEARCH REQUESTS TO NATIONAL OFFICES
(Trade Marks and Designs)
Type of TM
CTM
IR
Before 10/03/08
After 10/03/08
Pre-NESS
CTM+national
1,700 CTM /week to
300 /week
About 35 CTM / week
Pre-NESS
CTM+national
No more
Only 2 cases
Total: 344 CTM
Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
Extraction Optional search
NESS (CTM + national)
70
64
60
60
52
48
43
40
39
36
30
26
20
19
10
Week
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4ju
-m
ay
28
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ay
21
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ay
14
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7m
r
30
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b
r
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b
23
16
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b
r
r
9ab
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2ab
-m
ar
26
-m
ar
19
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ar
0
12
Applications
50
Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
Major requestors (representatives)
(Trade Marks and Designs)
250
200
150
100
52
50
49
50
43
42
37
29
24
22
19
18
13
12
11
10
9
8
8
8
8
16
17
18
19
20
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Nat. Search Request
12
13
14
Total CTMs
15
Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
TOP 10 OWNERS BY COUNTRY
(Trade Marks and Designs)
15
23
25
31
36
239
55
71
73
185
US
GB
IT
DE
ESP
JP
FR
GR
AT
SE
Office for Harmonization
in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
23
20
TOP 10 REPRESENTATIVES BY COUNTRY
27
19
35
54
75
443
92
108
GB
DE
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IT
NONE
FR
GR
SE
AT
BE