Peru joins the TMview search tool

By Francisco Espinosa Reboa

As of 10 October 2017, the National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) of Peru has made its trademark data available to the TMview search tool. The integration of Indecopi is a concrete result of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (Euipo) International Cooperation framework in collaboration with its international partners.

This last extension brings the total number of offices participating in TMview to 59 and with the addition of more than 400.000 trademarks from Peru TMview now provides information and access to almost 44.4 million trade marks in total. Since the introduction of TMview on 13 April 2010 the tool has served more than 34.7 million searches from 157 different countries, with visitors from Spain, Germany and Italy among the most frequent users.

TMview is an online consultation tool allowing any Internet user to search, free of charge, the trade marks of all participating official trade mark Offices. It is multilingual and easy-to-use, and gives access to trade mark applications and registrations of the participating official trade mark offices in a single place. The information is provided by the trademark offices that own the content and are responsible for its daily update.