ECTA - European Communities Trade Mark Association

Position Papers - October 2011

• Joint paper from business community lauding the countries’ signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - 1 October 2011

Position Papers - July 2011

• ECTA letter to OHIM President re Convergence Programme
  Copies of surveys mentioned can be found at Harmonization Committee / Papers section

Position Papers - May 2011

• ECTA-MARQUES comments on latest ICANN applicant guidebook

• ECTA’s Preliminary Comments on the MPI proposals included in its Study on the Overall Functioning of the European Trade Mark System 6 May

Position Papers - April 2011

• ACTA letter to President Buzek

• Comments of MARQUES, the Association of European Trade Mark Owners, and ECTA, the European Community Trade Marks Association, on the WHOIS Review Team and its work

• Position Paper in response to the EC’s consultation on the enforcement of IP rights - 13 April

Position Papers - March 2011

• Position Paper re UK consultation on possible amendments to design legislation - 25 March

• Further comments from ECTA and MARQUES on improvements to the rights protections mechanisms of the new gTLD programme - 25 March

• ECTA’s Response to DG SANCO’s Consultation on the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution as a means to Resolve Disputes Related to Commercial Transactions and Practices in the Euroepan Union - 14 March 2011

• ECTA and MARQUES’s on Improvements to the Rights Protection Mechanisms of the New GTLD Program - 11 March 2011

Position Paper - January 2011

• Position Paper - Designation of goods and services in the CTM and in National and International trade marks designating Member States in the European Union
  Use and scope of class headings of the International classification of the Nice agreement
  
  - Annex I - ECTA – Harmonization Committee Survey Oct 2010 – Class Headings 3