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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9302
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/intellectual property

On 1 January 2007 OHIM will extend intellectual property rights to 27 Member States

Brussels, 08/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) has announced that it will automatically extend protection on brands, designs and Community models when Bulgaria and Romania joint the European Union. Without incurring additional expenses, Community brands and designs will become valid over the whole of the EU, as was the case in 2004 with accession of the ten new countries. At the end of October Wubbo de Boer, the president of OHIM...

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