Other collaborations established by Eurid

• Author: Paulovics, Ivett
• Pages: 36-36

STUDY ON EVALUATION OF PRACTICES FOR COMBATING SPECULATIVE AND ABUSIVE DOMAIN NAME

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8. OTHER COLLABORATIONS ESTABLISHED BY EURID

Further to its collaboration with EUIPO and Europol, EURid collaborates with international

and European authorities, institutions and law enforcement agencies to prevent online

illegal activities, such as Belgian Customs (against counterfeit websites), Belgian

Prosecutors and law enforcement agencies (against cybercrime), Association for Safe

Online Pharmacy (ASOP) (against rogue pharmacies), International AntiCounterfeiting

Coalition (IACC)60, eCommerce Foundation (against fake e-shops), Anti-Phishing Working

Group (APWG) (against phishing), Belgian Computer Emergency Response Team

(CERT).

No structured collaboration with Member States’ trade mark and copyright offices exists.

EURid stated that it is currently discussing with the Benelux Intellectual Property Office to

set up a formal collaboration and extend the EUIPO notification (alert) system.

Considered that the .eu Regulations provide protection for national registered marks to the

same extent as for EUTMs, it is recommended that EURid set up collaborations with

national trade mark and copyright offices. Such collaborations could be set up through

EUIPO’s European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN) (formerly known as

European Trade Mark and Design Network)61 or any other suitable network of the Member

States’ intellectual property offices that can provide EURid with a single point of contact.

The extension of EURid’s collaboration in place with EUIPO to Member States’ trade mark

offices by offering the measures of availability check and/or alert to their users as well

should be evaluated. Stakeholders, especially ECTA, have also suggested that the .eu

Registry should collaborate with national trade mark offices.

Concerning the geographical indications or designations of origin, it is recommended that

the .eu Registry carries out checks in the EU Geographical Indications register of the

European Commission, eAmbrosia62. Whether any collaboration could be set up in order

to extend the measures available to EUTM holders to the beneficiaries of the geographical

indications or designations of origin is an aspect worth investigating. oriGIn has also

suggested such extension.

With reference to trade names, business identifiers and company names, studying

whether any collaboration with any European Union network of business registries could

be set up is recommended.

60 https://eurid.eu/en/news/eurid-and-iacc-team-up-to-fight-cybercrime/

61 https://www.tmdn.org/

62 https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/food-safety-and-quality/certification/quality-labels/geographical-

indications-register/