News from the Office and other IP institutions.

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Criminal suits for the sale of counterfeited clothes and footwear

The suspects, over the Internet, in the longer time period, in the country or abroad, sold footwear and clothes for which it has been established that it concerns forgery of high quality of well-known luxury trademarks

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Forged medicament Ozempic (semaglutide) – warning of the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on June 19, 2024, about the appearance of the forged medicament Ozempic and the risks implied with the consummation of this forged product

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Counterfeited sun glasses represent a risk for the damage of the eye-sight

Sunglasses that are sold by the street salesmen, via social networks and other Internet sights by the unreliable salesmen and they are mostly counterfeited

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Watch fair, buy fair, play fair!

In 2024, Europe is in the epicenter of sports events. Do we play fair, when it concerns watching sports events and buying sports equipment?

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Criminal charges against the sale of fake parfums and clothes over the Internet

The Police employees from the Department for Fighting against High Technology Crime and trade inspectors of the Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade in cooperation with the Special Prosecutor`s Office seized on March 29, 2024 fake parfums and clothes

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Challenges of Internet Shopping

As St. Valentine Day – the day of lovers – comes closer, the Intellectual Property Office invites all citizens to be very careful while shopping on the Internet

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Support film artists, say no to piracy

The Intellectual Property Office appeals to all the citizens to withhold from the acts enabling unlawful public communication of the film “Sunday” and to support thus our film industry

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Prevented sale of fake parfums over the internet

The Police employees from the Department for Fighting Against High Technological Crime, in cooperation with the Special Prosecution Office for High Technological Crime, seized fake parfums

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Principles of Common Practice EU – CP8

IPO successfully cooperates with EUIPO in harmonizing EU Principles of Common Practice.

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Importance of design as intellectual property right for business – Stories from Serbian companies

The external image of a product is one of the key factors that attracts us to a product.

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Importance of trademark as intellectual property right for business – Stories from Serbian companies

How some of the Serbian companies use their trademark in business and how important is the protection of the trademark for the future of the company.

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Importance of patents as intellectual property rights from doing business – Stories from Serbian companies

This year, we shall celebrate 100 years of existence and work of the Intellectual Property Office.

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Principles of Common Practice EU – CP 5

The Office successfully cooperates with EUIPO in terms of harmonization of practice with the principles of practice of EU member states in the field of trademarks.

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Data from the trademarks from Serbia – In the WIPO data base – Global brand database

WIPO – data are available for over 56,000 trademarks and trademark applications that are registered