Hungary joins TMview

Trade marks from the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices.

The latest expansion brings the total number of offices which have made their trade mark data available to TMview to 20. Besides Hungary these are: Bulgaria, Benelux, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, WIPO and OHIM. With the addition of more than 115.000 Hungarian trade marks, TMview now provides access to more than 7,1m trade marks in total.

TMview, which went live on 13 April 2010, is proving popular with users. Since then it has welcomed more than 730.000 visitors from 178 different countries, with users from Spain, Germany and Italy among the most frequent visitors.

You can find out more at www.tmview.europa.eu

For further information, please contact:

Tuulimarja Myllymäki
Legal Advisor, Trademarks and Designs Line
tel. +358 9 6939 5399