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Registered Community Designs: reasons for refusal

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April 19, 2012
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The OHIM has begun publishing information about Registered Community Design applications that have been refused.

The designs themselves are not shown, but the grounds for refusal are now being made available. Darren Smyth relates the news in his latest IPKat post.

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