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Navigating through the paperless world of OHIM

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The current and planned extent of realisation of OHIM's objective of a totally paperless working environment is described. Those areas where paper copies are still needed - e.g., the Official Journal (in five languages), the Bulletin (in 11 languages), and certain publications on the CTM and national law - are outlined, together with an overview of the progress in providing more compact CD-ROM versions of those materials. Electronic public trademark search services enabled by the increasingly paperless environment for filing and processing include an Internet website. The site has information on, for instance, trademark law decisions, the OHIM annual report, links to other trademark office sites, and access to three databases (CTM-ONLINE, CTM-DOWNLOAD and CTM AGENT). A description is given of actioning public requests for information (such as file inspection and earlier national search reports) - currently by conventional paper copies - and the scope for using CTM-ONLINE to retrieve data from EUROMARC, the Office's internal database. Finally, the author concludes that further movement towards a totally paperless office is predicated on changes to the acceptable means of proof in judicial proceedings as well as further changes in public attitudes towards such a working environment.

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  • Humphreys, Gordon, 2000. "Navigating through the paperless world of OHIM," World Patent Information, Elsevier, vol. 22(3), pages 135-141, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:worpat:v:22:y:2000:i:3:p:135-141
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