Five Trademark Offices (CNIPA, EUIPO, JPO, KIPO, USPTO)
Projects
CNIPAEUIPOJPOKIPOUSPTO
- Non-Traditional Trademarks - This project is designed to improve and potentially harmonize the TM5 partners’ methods of searching and retrieving non-traditional trademarks. Thus, this project aims to assist trademark right holders or others who search national trademark registries in multiple jurisdictions
- Fraudulent Solicitations - The purpose of this project is to address scams occurring worldwide where trademark users receive misleading or fraudulent solicitations offering trademark services in exchange for payment, but the services are never rendered, or are rendered poorly, creating costs and frustration for trademark users.
- ID List - The TM 5 “ID List Project” is designed to assist trademark right holders who seek trademark protection in multiple jurisdictions.
- Common Status Descriptors - The TM5 “Common Status Descriptors” (“CST”) Project is designed to aid trademark right holders and other interested parties who may have dealings with two or more partner offices. Once a national IP office receives an application to register a trademark, that office may assign any one of various “statuses” to that application (or to any resulting registration) depending, among other things, on:
- Bad Faith Trademark - The issue of “bad-faith trademark filings” is a common problem in the world. “Bad faith filings” could refer, for example, to trademark filings by third parties to register the identical or similar trademarks of others in order to take advantage of the fact that the genuine trademark owners have not registered them.
- IT Support for Trademark Examination - This project is aimed at driving future development of image search systems available for figurative trademark examinations.
- User Involvement - The aim of the project is to establish a coherent and consistent user involvement in the TM5 forum, through the following meetings and working sessions:
- Bad Faith Trademark - The issue of “bad-faith trademark filings” is a common problem in the world. “Bad faith filings” could refer, for example, to trademark filings by third parties to register the identical or similar trademarks of others in order to take advantage of the fact that the genuine trademark owners have not registered them.
- User Involvement - The aim of the project is to establish a coherent and consistent user involvement in the TM5 forum, through the following meetings and working sessions:
- Priority Rights - TM5 is a multilateral cooperation forum that is comprised of the five main trademark offices in the world. The forum was originally created in 2001 by three principal international IP Offices, namely, the Japan Patent Office, the Office for Harmonization...
- TM5 Joint Communication Action - This project is designed to improve and potentially harmonize the TM5 partners’ methods of searching and retrieving non-traditional trademarks. Thus, this project aims to assist trademark right holders or others who search national trademark registries in multiple jurisdictions
- Common Statistical Indicators - The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a process to regularly exchange statistics on the main variables of interest to the TM5 partners, and to make this information available to the public.
- TMview - This project aims to look at the possibilities of improving access to information related to trade marks. Our current strategy is to expand the current TMview platform by including data from the TM5 partners.
- Providing Information on How TM5 Members Describe Goods and Services - Project objectives The aim of this project is to enhance user convenience in identifying goods and services by providing the Partner Offices’ descriptions of acceptable goods and services, and then posting the collected information onto the TM5’s public website. 2. Project scope
- TM5 Website - KIPO aims at developing and implementing a tool to share cooperation projects among the partner offices. The website will be regularly updated with information focusing on the purpose and function of the TM5. Concurrently, the website will disseminate information online to users and the general public.
- Comparative Analysis on Examination Results - The purpose of this project is to increase user convenience by enabling international applicants to predict the registrability of filed marks in TM5 partners’ countries.
- Trademark Archives Management and Administration - The project aims to share the information related to the manner and scope of the archives preservation, management and administration, both in paper and electronic form, within TM5 offices. By learning from the experience of others', the offices can improve the management and operation of the trademark paper and electronic archives.
- Trademark Protection in Opposition and Appeal (Review) Procedure - This project plans to deepen users' understanding of the practice of trademark opposition and appeal (review) in TM5 Partner offices and to provide information to the users on how to protect their legitimate rights and interests more effectively through comparing the legal system and practice of trademark opposition and appeal (review) in TM5 Partner offices and by typical cases.
