EUIPO announced a new artificial intelligence-based image recognition technology to search for similar-looking trade marks and designs.

By analysing the colours, shapes and textures, eSearch plus brings more complete and better ranked results. Besides, it identifies and suggests automatically the likely Vienna codes contained in the trade mark images and likely Locarno classes contained in the design images.

The system allows for the upload of one image when searching for trade marks and up to seven images at once to search for designs. JPG, PNG, GIF and TIFF are the supported formats.

More information and tips regarding the use of the tool are available on the EUIPO website.