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Begüm Alpaslan
France
Marco Barucco
Luxembourg
Cristina Bercial-Chaumier
Spain
Mauro Bronzini
Italy
Massimo Cimoli
Italy
Valeria Conidi
Italy
Inmaculada de la Haza
Spain
Florina Enache
Romania
Pierre Faton
France
Luis Ferreira
Portugal
Takao Fukui
Japan
Martin Gutwillinger
Luxembourg
Carl-Richard Haarmann
Germany
Hannu Halmetoja
Finland
Mariëlle Hoffer
Netherlands
Julia King
United Kingdom
Ivana Knežević
Croatia
Moritz Koerner
Germany
Ursula Leber
Austria
Anne-Sophie Leroi
France
Andrea K. Marx
Germany
Christopher Morcom K.C.
United Kingdom
Isabel Moya
United Kingdom
Alessandra Naia
United Kingdom
Juan Carlos Ojam
Argentina
Riina Pärn
Estonia
Vasil Pavlov
Bulgaria
Davide Resmini
Italy
Neil Ritchie
Ireland
Gilles E.A.L. Rubens
Netherlands
Vidhi Singh
India
Martina Taxhet
Germany
Stephanie Wuyts
Belgium
Harmonization Committee
Chair
Marie-Christine Seiler
Germany
Vice-Chair
Krystyna Zurawska
Poland
Secretary
Janna Thomsen
Germany

DESCRIPTION The Harmonization Committee’s activities include the conducting of surveys in all EU member states on the national law and practice with regard to legal issues of specific current interest. Surveys conducted by the Harmonization Committee e.g. dealt with

  • trade mark use in opposition and cancellation proceedings
  • trade mark issues related to geographic indications
  • trade marks filed in bad faith
  • protection of marks with a reputation
  • legal enforcement of security interests of trade marks
  • conversion issues or
  • comparison of the national laws as far as the CTMR explicitly provides for the application of national law.

The Harmonization Committee thereby creates a knowledge base which is useful to propose best practises, compare and benchmark practises and helps other committees to prepare position papers, proposals and replies to questions submitted by European Boards and Agencies. MISSION STATEMENT The Mission of the Harmonization Committee is the monitoring of the harmonisation of EU trade mark law, including the national trade mark law practices according to the guidelines developed by the CJEU decisions. The Committee examines the differences of the various national trade mark laws and practices, also with regard to the non-harmonised points of law and legal procedures. One of the Committee’s aims is to foster the awareness of the existing differences and to ultimately increase the harmonisation of the legal practices of the Member States.