Training new trade marks examiners & Assistance to the IPTC of MyIPO, 17-20 July 2006, Kuala Lumpur

Under the ECAP II programme, Ms Inés GARCIA LLEDO and Mr Markus KICIA, experts from OHIM, conducted a four-day training session for 60 trade marks examiners and officers of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Training Centre.  The course provided an overview on trade mark examination procedures, grounds for refusal examination and opposition proceedings.

Presentation materials of Ms Inés GARCIA LLEDO and Mr Markus KICIA are available for downloading:
-  General Overview on OHIM and the Community Trade Mark System
-  Formality Examination and Classification of the Goods and Service
-  Introduction on the examination of absolute grounds and examination of word marks
-  Absolute grounds examination: Figurative marks and 3D marks
-  Absolute grounds examination: Colour Marks
-  Absolute grounds examination: Others Types of Marks (sound, olfactory...)
-  Likelihood of confusion
-  Developments at international level and EU level on the protection of Well Known and Reputed
   Trade Marks
-  Art. 8(2) (c) + 8 (5) CTMR Well Known marks, Marks with reputation
-  CTM Link to the Madrid Protocol
-  Annex: Development on European Jurisprudence