Launch of ASEAN Designview and ASEAN TMclass

ASEAN Designview and ASEAN TMclass have officially been launched on 25 August 2015 in Singapore, on the occasion of the celebration of the IPOS IP Week.

The launch ceremony has taken place at the ASEAN IP Fiesta with the presence of Dr Michael Pulch, Ambassador of the European Union to Singapore, Ms Shahrinah Yusof Khan, Director General of the Intellectual Property Office of Brunei Darussalam and Chairperson of the ASEAN Working Group for Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC), Mr Ernesto Rubio, representing EUIPO, Mr Ignacio de Medrano, ECAP III Project Leader and representatives from all ASEAN IP Offices.

ASEAN Designview contains more than 100,000 design registrations having effects in the participating ASEAN countries. These are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It is expected that Indonesia and Myanmar will also join soon.

ASEAN TMclass is an online consultation tool offering free of charge public access to a database of terms accepted by the participating ASEAN IP Offices as suitable to identify goods and services for the purpose of the registration of marks.

We invite you to visit both tools at asean-designview.org and asean-tmclass.org, respectively.