Edwin Coe attends the ECTA 37th Annual Conference

Edwin Coe is pleased to announce that three members of our IP and Trade Marks team will be attending the European Communities Trade Mark Association’s (ECTA) 37th Annual Conference, held across three days, from Wednesday 13 June to Friday 15 June 2018 in Athens, Greece. The conference will focus on the subject of ‘Gods in Transit: IP at the crossroads of Great Civilisations’.

Our Head of Intellectual Property, Simon Miles is the legal adviser to ECTA. Maggie Ramage (Partner) will attend the Professional Affairs and the Membership and Disciplinary Committee meetings of which she is a committee member. Eric Ramage (Of Counsel) will attend the Internet Committee and Professional Affairs Committee meetings as a member of those committees.  As ECTA Council Members Simon and Eric will both attend the Council meeting taking place during the conference.

About European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)

ECTA is recognized as a peer by the European Commission, EUIPO and WIPO, and has more than 30 years’ experience in promoting its members’ knowledge and professionalism. ECTA was the primary non-governmental professional association involved in the introduction of the CTM system during 1996 and has remained actively involved in the refinement and improvement of this very successful unitary trade mark system. This has been highly beneficial to ECTA members, many of whom have been actively involved in promoting, positively influencing and bringing about important changes in the fields of IP in Europe.