Press

2012

ECTA and the importance of IP rights - article by Max Oker-Blom, ECTA Secretary General and Annick Mottet Haugaard, ECTA President, April

ACTA Doubts Rampant In Europe; Industry Call For “Reasoned Assessment”

ACTA - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Why You Should Support It

Business Community Urges European Parliament to Pass ACTA

EPP Trademarks hearing 11 January, TV report, including interview with Annick Mottet Haugaard, ECTA President


2011

Reform in Romania, EU membership and colour trade marks, James Nurton’s interview with Andrew Vlad Ratza, ECTA Council Member, Ratza & Ratza, RO

PRESS RELEASE - Signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) : ECTA Comments - 12 October 2011

PRESS RELEASE - Europe’s Business Community Welcomes the Formal Adoption of ACTA Organizations Urge the Council of Ministers and European Parliament to Quickly Approve the Trade Agreement

The quest to improve trade mark legislation in Europe, Dani Backteg’s interview with Annick Mottet Haugaard, ECTA President, AwaInformation June 2011

PRESS RELEASE - Large quantities of counterfeit medicines distributed from Sweden

European Union - Commission consults with CTM users aims for Autumn deadline by Adam Smith


2010

“Schermen met merken” in Trends and “Protectrice de marques” in Tendance by Gilles Quoistiaux including an interview of Annick Mottet Haugaard (ECTA President), 12 August

“Une femme de marques” in magazine Université Liege, by Didier Moreau including an interview of Annick Mottet Haugaard (ECTA President)

Laying the foundations of Trademark reform - WIPR Digest 2010, Annick Mottet Haugaard, ECTA President


PRESS RELEASE - Finalising the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): ECTA comments


PRESS REPORT - International Meeting of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee (ACC) of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), dedicated to the matters of importing, offering and putting the counterfeit goods on the EU market – 22 October 2010


World trademark review interview European Union - Users cannot provide a united front against European challenges - By Adam Smith - 14 June 2010 Fabio Angelini (Chair of Law Committee) - interviewed


The evolving gTLd - Andrew Mills (Chair of Internet Committee) - World Intellectual Property Review


James Nurton’s interview with Annick Mottet Haugaard (ECTA President) - June 2010


2009

Laying the foundations of Trade Mark reform - Annick Mottet Haugaard interview - World Intellectual Property Review


2008

Olivier Vrins and Marius Schneider provide an overview of transit, Customs warehousing and inward processing under EU trademark law - World Intellectual Property Review.


CTM AND NATIONAL SYSTEMS—CAN THEY PEACEFULLY COEXIST? - Simon Reeves interview with World Intellectual Property Review

Press Release

2012

APRIL

PRESS RELEASE - European Sister Organisations Joint Statement 23 April 2012 - Objection to the adoption of restrictive legislation or policy options frequently referred to as “generic” or “plain packaging”

2011

OCTOBER

PRESS RELEASE - Signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) : ECTA Comments - 12 October 2011