Traduction de «l’office de l’harmonisation » (Français → Anglais) :

This Regulation entrusts the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") with certain tasks related to the protection of intellectual property rights.

This Regulation entrusts the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") with tasks aimed at facilitating and supporting the activities of national authorities, the private sector and the institutions of the Union in the fight against infringements of the intellectual property rights covered by Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

(4a) The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (hereinafter referred to as 'the Office'), in cooperation with the Member States and the Commission, should carry out an in-depth analysis of the consequences that intellectual property infringements entail for companies and small and medium-sized enterprises in particular, with a view to determining best solutions and sharing best practices.

Particular focus will be on possibilities of: (1) simplifying and speeding up the registration procedure, taking into account the requirements of the electronic age; (2) increasing legal certainty, such as by redefining what may constitute a trade mark; (3) clarifying the scope of trade mark rights inter alia as regards goods in various situations throughout the EU customs territory; (4) providing a framework for increased cooperation between the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) at Alicante and national trade mark offices with the ...[+++]aim of harmonising administrative practice and developing common tools, such as those which offer far greater options for conducting priority searches, and watching the registry for infringing registrations; and (5) making the Directive more coherent with the Regulation, in particular, by further aligning the legal grounds of refusal for registration at European level, and (6) aligning the grounds for refusal and for coexistence under both the Directive and the Regulation to rules on geographical indications.

Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 25 March 2009 in Case T-191/07 Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) by which that Court dismissed an action brought by the applicant for the word mark “BUDWEISER” for goods in class 32 seeking annulment of Decision R 299/2006-2 of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 20 March 2007, dismissing the appeal against the decision of the Opposition Division refusing registration of the mark in opposition proceedings brought by the proprietor of the international figurative and word marks “BUDWEISER” a ...[+++]nd “Budweiser Budvar” for goods in classes 31 and 32.

The Regulation confers powers on the Commission in order to adopt certain rules. Those rules are currently provided in the Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 of 13 December 1995 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark[20], Commission Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 of 13 December 1995 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market[21], and Commission Regulation (EC) No 216/96 of 5 February 1996 laying down the rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market[22].