Category: News

ZMP is pleased to announce rankings in the newest edition of WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2020.

Law on Trademarks
(Official Gazette RS no. 6/20)

On January 24, 2020, the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia adopted the new Law on Trademarks. Its implementation shall begin on Saturday, February 1, 2020. The aim of the new law is to harmonize Serbian legislation in the field with the European legislation, hence the introduction of many novelties. Summary of essential novelties is listed below:

Djura Mijatović, our Managing Partner and Luka Jelcic, from the ZMP Croatian Office, will be participating in the INTA 2020 Europe Conference about Brands, Sports, and Esports: A Brand (R)evolution, which will take place on February 17th-18th 2020 in Madrid, Spain.

A new Law on Marks and Geographical Indications (LMGI) entered into force on December 17, 2019 in Bulgaria. The new LMGI aims to transpose Directive (EU) 2015/2436 into the national legislation, as well as to bring the national legislation regarding geographical indications in line with the provisions of Regulation (EU) No. 1151/2012, Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, and Regulation (EU) No 251/2014.

Several colleagues from different ZMP offices have participated in ‘Getting The Deal Through – Trademarks 2020‘, the Law Business Research, which has now been published on the GTDT website:

Djura Mijatović, our Managing Partner will be participating in the INTA Leadership Meeting which will take place November 19th-22th 2019 in Austin, Texas, USA.

Arrange a meeting by sending an email to djuram@zm-p.com.

The Leadership Meeting brings together INTA volunteers and leaders once a year to advance the Association’s objectives and goals. This meeting offers registrants an advanced-level educational program and the opportunity to conduct business and network with colleagues from around the world over four days in an amazing location. INTA is excited to bring the Leadership Meeting to Austin, Texas for the first time—“Live Music Capital of the World” and home to some of the best BBQ in America.

https://www.inta.org/2019Leadership/Pages/Overview.aspx

We are proud to announce that Tomasz Rychlicki, our colleague from the Polish ZMP office, has co-authored the chapter titled The Polish Struggle with the Concept of Copyrightable Work: A Brief Look at the History and Contemporary Issue featured in the recently published Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property in Central and Eastern Europe. Congratulations Tomek!

Monica Novac from our Romanian office will attend the third edition of EUROPOL IP Crime Conference in Malaga, Spain, during June 17-June 19, 2019. The event will benefit of the attendance of several experts from law enforcement, private industry and academia and will focus on new modus operandi related to IP crime and the different and original ways to fight against it.

ZMP is proud to announce that Daniela Moreira from our Alicante office and Monica Novac from our Romanian office successfully completed the first edition of the EUIPO Trade Mark and Design Education Programme (ETMD EP). ETMD EP is a training program for IP practitioners extended for 9 months and covering approx. 150 hours of online and face-to-face tuition delivered by EUIPO staff, leading IP professionals and academics. The program focused on practical matters related to the prosecution, registration and post-registration of European Union trademarks and Community designs.

ZMP was a proud sponsor of the Europe, Middle East and Africa Team of the Year award at last Tuesday’s WTR Industry Awards. Our Managing Partner, Djura Mijatovic and the head of the Serbian office, Marija Markicevic, handed out the award to this year’s winners – team from Daniel Wellington. We congratulate to all the winners as well as nominees!