You are here: Home

Welcome to OHIM

OHIM is the European Union agency responsible for registering trade marks and designs that are valid in all 27 countries of the EU.

 

News

Signature of Cooperation and Bilateral Agreements with the Croatian office
On 21 May, alongside the ABBC meeting, and as part of the preparatory work of the coming accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, the President of OHIM and the Director General of the State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia (SIPO), Ms Ljiljana Kuterovac, have signed relevant agreements which provide the basis for their full involvement in the financial and technical framework of the Cooperation Fund, Convergence Programme and CTM and RCD dissemination activities.
More
May 22, 2013
President Campinos visits Slovakia
The President of OHIM, António Campinos, has met the Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico, the Minister of Economy Tomáš Malatinský and other representatives of government, industry and academia to discuss how to further strengthen the intellectual property system to promote growth and innovation in Europe.
More
May 17, 2013
KIPO joins TMclass
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has become the latest office to join TMclass. TMclass is an online tool based on the Nice Classification system, that helps users correctly classify goods and services when filing a trade mark. As well as KIPO´s database, it also offers access to the databases of EU national IP offices and other major IP offices, including the United States Patent and Trade mark Office (USPTO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI).
More
May 16, 2013