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This website is operated by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (hereinafter the ‘EUIPO’ or the ‘Office’). By using this website (the ‘Website’), you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to any of the terms or conditions provided herein, please do not use this website or any information or service herein.

Applicable terms

Access to, and use of, any part of the Website, any document, material or other information, including data, text, images, and sound (hereinafter ‘Information’) made available on the Website and any of the services provided via the Website (hereinafter ‘Services’) are governed by these General Terms and Conditions of Use (hereinafter ‘General Terms’) and constitute acceptance of these General Terms by the user.

Specific terms and conditions may apply to individual Services or specific parts of the Website as indicated for those Services or parts concerned. Where provided, specific terms shall supersede any differing provision of the General Terms in respect to those Services or parts.

The EUIPO reserves the right to amend these General Terms and any other specific terms on the Website at any time by posting amended terms and conditions on the Website. Such amendments will take effect on the date on which they are posted.

About the website

The EUIPO’s mission includes managing the registration systems for European Union (EU’) trade marks and designs, and the administration and promotion of geographical indications for craft and industrial products. The EUIPO also maintains the Union register of geographical indications and keeps it up to date. In pursuit of its mission, the EUIPO offers telematic services requiring technologies capable of sending, receiving and storing information.

The general purpose of the Website is to facilitate and enhance public access to the Register and Information held by the EUIPO in accordance with applicable legal provisions. Additional Services allow authenticated users to inspect files, to communicate with the Office, to upload and retrieve documents and data. The EUIPO is committed to ensuring the uninterrupted availability of the Website and to providing security to a professionally reasonable level of skill and care. However, this cannot be guaranteed. Access to the Website and its Services may occasionally be suspended, restricted or impeded to permit repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new Services or facilities. To ensure communication with the Office with respect to proceedings related to EU trade marks and designs, pursuant to Article 6 of Decision No EX-23-13 of the Executive Director of the Office of 1 December 2025 on ‘communication by electronic means’, the Office foresees a communication backup solution in cases of malfunction during the electronic transmission of an application, communication or other document through the specific e-operation or e-filing tool in the User Area. For geographical indications for craft and industrial products, the mailbox EUIPO_GIs@euipo.europa.eu will be available in case of malfunction of GIportal.

Ownership

The EUIPO operates in a network of National Offices in the European Union (EU), as well as other major intellectual property (IP) offices outside the EU with a shared aim to provide a single access point for information concerning trade marks (TMview) and designs (DesignView). Moreover, the EUIPO maintains a web tool (GIview) allowing users to search all types of geographical indications (GIs) registered and protected in the EU and have access to the Union register of GIs for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products data, the Union register of geographical indications for craft and industrial products, as well as the additional data provided by national competent authorities or producer groups on protected geographical indications. Contents offered by the EUIPO may thus originate from partner data-holders and/or contain third-party proprietary information.

Information published on the Website may be protected by intellectual and industrial property rights. Proprietary rights, including copyright, subsisting in any of the Information available via this Website are vested in their respective owners, these being the EUIPO, partner data-holders or any other third-party credited as such. Access to the Services does not give users any ownership title in the Information made available to them on the Website. All rights not specifically granted herewith are reserved by the respective owner(s).

Right of use

Access to Information and Services of this Website is granted for consultation within the scope and objectives pursued by the EUIPO according to applicable European Union law.

Users uploading or otherwise submitting content to the EUIPO, grant the EUIPO a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes necessary to ensure more efficient Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content, within the scope and duration foreseen by applicable EU law.

Use of the Information is regulated as follows:

Users may:

  • distribute or reproduce the Information as long as the Website is credited as its source and prominent mention is made as to its free availability;
  • create adaptations, translations, conversions, modifications or other derivative work based on the Information provided that
    • reasonable steps have been taken to label or demarcate the alterations or otherwise clearly indicate that changes have been made to the original Information; and
    • the author of the Information and/or the party credited as its provider whichever appears on the Website is mentioned, and the Website is cited as its source; and
    • the right to reproduce and distribute any such adaptation is explicitly granted to any third party, under the same conditions as provided herein;
  • use deep linking techniques to reach specific pages of the Website beyond the home page.

Users shall not:

  • perform any activity that could harm or violate the EUIPO's network performance and/or security, and, in particular, upload files containing viruses or other malware that might damage the operation of another user's computer;
  • use integration techniques such as framing and inline linking with the Website and the Information therein;
  • use the information and personal data made available on the Website for illegal or misleading activities.

Text and Data Mining

Provided that Users comply with all use policies, security measures and conditions of access communicated to them or made available to them by the EUIPO, Users may access the Website and the Information to perform and engage in text and/or data mining activities for the purposes of scientific research, including academic research, scholarship, and other educational purposes and may use and share the results of text and/or data mining in their scholarly work. The limited authorisation for text and data mining provided herewith is subject to the conditions that: (i) such results are made and stored only to the extent necessary for the purposes of computational analysis; (ii) such results are not transferred to any other person or used for any other purpose without the EUIPO’s prior written consent; and (iii) such results are destroyed once they are no longer necessary for the relevant computational analysis. Users must acknowledge the use of Information and its source if any such results are published.

The foregoing license does not cover Information to which any granted or pending IP right other than copyright apply (e.g. trade marks, designs and database rights). In that case, and for any kind of commercial use, users are encouraged to seek specific and explicit permission from the right(s) holder(s) concerned.

For the avoidance of doubt, except as specifically and explicitly authorised by the EUIPO in writing, the EUIPO expressly reserves and opts out of any copyright exception for text or data mining, web scraping, or similar reproductions, extractions, or uses for whatever purpose other than scientific research (TDM’) of any Information. This reservation applies to any purposes, including the training, development, or commercialisation of any AI system, and by any means, including bots, scrapers, or other automated processes, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law in all relevant jurisdictions, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and all national laws having transposed the same. To facilitate recognition of this prohibition against automated data collection tools, the reservation is also expressed as follows: <TDM-RESERVATION: 1>

Under no circumstance shall the users use the EUIPO logo or the official name and credentials of the EUIPO to imply affiliation, endorsement or any other official link to the EUIPO without prior written and formal authorisation from the EUIPO.

The extraction of substantial parts of the EUIPO’s databases or of the content therein – howsoever performed – is forbidden. Users may deep link to specific pages of the Website. However, web integration techniques such as framing and inline linking are not permitted.

Disclaimer

All Information from electronic registers and databases kept by the EUIPO and made available via the Website is provided under the specific conditions determined by the Executive Director in accordance with Article 112 (3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark and Article 73 of Regulation (EU) No 2024/2822 of 23 October 2024 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2246/2002. Users must comply with these conditions at all times.

The Information accessible via the registers managed by the EUIPO and available on the Website (‘eRegisters’), shall constitute ‘entries in the register’ within the meaning of Article 111 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark and Article 72a(3) of Regulation (EU) No 2024/2822 of 23 October 2024 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community designs and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2246/2002, Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023 on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products and amending Regulations (EU) 2017/1001 and (EU) 2019/1753 and Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on geographical indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, as well as traditional specialties guaranteed and optional quality terms for agricultural products, amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2019/787 and (EU) 2019/1753 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

Information provided to the EUIPO by partner data-holders is displayed as received, without any kind of guarantee and for information purposes only. Partner data-holders remain solely responsible for the accuracy and reliability of the data and information provided. Please note that Information provided by partner data-holders does not necessarily reflect the views of the EUIPO.

The EUIPO strives to keep all Information up-to-date and accurate. With the exception of the information in the eRegisters, the EUIPO makes no claims, assurances, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the Information available via the Website and, therefore, expressly disclaims its liability for errors and omissions to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Except where otherwise required under statutory rules or applicable provisions of law, the Information accessed via the Website is of general informational nature only. Under no circumstances shall the Information be construed as constituting professional or legal advice.

The EUIPO accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage that may arise from reliance on the Information and Services provided via the Website, including information or services hyperlinked from the Website which are and shall remain under the sole control and responsibility of the third-parties concerned.

The EUIPO is not in a position to certify the authenticity of any document submitted by a third-party, including any information contained therein. Only texts published in the Official Journal of the EU and texts published in the Official Journal of the EUIPO, as well as extracts retrieved from the eRegisters, are authentic official documents.

Should errors or omissions concerning the Information provided via this Website be brought to its attention, the EUIPO will endeavour to promptly correct them directly or, where necessary, refer the matter to the concerned partner data-holder or third-party.

Privileges and immunities

According to Article 144 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 on the European Union trade mark, the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities shall apply to the Office and its staff.

Contact

To contact the EUIPO with respect to matters concerning the Website and in particular questions relating to e-business as such, please find the appropriate contact details on the EUIPO's ‘Contact us’ section. For all other concerns, e.g. for IP registrations administered by the EUIPO and proceedings related thereto, please use the respective information on the Website and the available databases.