National offices receive €1.8 million from OHIM
09 May 2008
Emma Barraclough, London
OHIM, the Alicante-based office that handles Community trade marks and registered designs, paid EU member states a total of €1,872,850 last year, according to its latest statistics
The payments were made for what OHIM described as "services to the Community trade mark (CTM) and the registered community design (RCD)". Denmark and the UK - the top two recipients - each received more than €250,000, 10 other national offices received more than €100,000, while seven offices received smaller amounts.
The figure was included in a report on the progress of technical cooperation agreements between OHIM and member states that was presented at a meeting of the Office's Administrative Board and Budget Committee...
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