Brussels, 24/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - The five main umbrella groups of companies holding EU trademarks have written to the European Commission asking it to arrange the long-promised research into reform of the EU trademark system (see EUROPE 9784). They write that they fully back the Council's view that it is time to launch an in-depth study of the commercial trademark system in Europe, looking at the broad functioning of EU and national trademark schemes in order to harmonise procedures,...