WIPO/OEPM Advanced Practical Training Course on Trademarks Examination for Latin American Countries

This training course is organized in cooperation with the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM).

Content and Structure

OEPM: organization and operation; international activities; public information activities; publications, especially trademark publications; and demonstration of databases;
model of the autonomous industrial property office;
OEPM international activities;
organization and operation of the OEPM Patents and Industrial Designs Department;
derived marks and other forms of protection;
generic denominations;
causes of invalidity and lapse of distinctive signs;
issues relating to similarity of trademarks;
International Classification of Goods and Services (Nice Classification);
International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (Vienna Classification);
demonstration of the databases of OEPM;
system of OEPM for the production and exploitation of data;
OEPM Technological Information Department;
OEPM’s public information activities, publications, especially trademark publications;
distinctive signs and challenging decisions ; administrative appeals and administrative-judicial appeals; and the invalidation process;
debate on jurisprudential criteria in the substantive examination of trademarks.