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 will 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. These amendments will take effect on the date on which they are posted.

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 over the Information made available to them on the Website. All rights not specifically granted herewith are reserved by the respective owner(s).

Access to the Website’s Information and Services is granted for consultation within the scope and objectives pursued by the EUIPO according to applicable European Union 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 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 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 the Website’s specific pages beyond the home page.

Users must not:

• perform any activity that could harm or violate the EUIPO’s network performance 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.

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 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 or data mining in their scholarly work. The limited authorisation for text and data mining provided herewith is subject to the conditions that: (i) the results are made and stored only to the extent necessary for the purposes of computational analysis; (ii) the results are not transferred to any other person or used for any other purpose without the EUIPO’s prior written consent; and (iii) the results are destroyed once they are no longer necessary for the relevant computational analysis. Users must acknowledge their use of the Information and its source if any such results are published.

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

To avoid doubt, unless 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 artificial intelligence system – and through 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 circumstances can users employ the EUIPO logo or the official name and credentials of the EUIPO to imply affiliation, endorsement or 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 – however 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.

The Information provided on this Website does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal or professional advice; instead, all information, content and materials available on this site are for general informational purposes only. Users of this Website should contact a legal professional or other specialist to obtain advice or tailored information with respect to any particular legal, economic, financial or other matter.

Some of the Information published on this Website is provided to the EUIPO by third parties. This Information is displayed as received, without any kind of guarantee and for information purposes only. Third parties remain solely responsible for the accuracy and reliability of the data and information provided. Please note that information provided by third parties does not necessarily reflect the views of the EUIPO.

Although the EUIPO strives to keep all Information up to date and accurate, it makes no claims, assurances or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of the Information available via the Website. Therefore, it expressly disclaims its liability for errors and omissions to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Where the Website provides links to publicly available third-party websites and free content aimed at providing training, tools and other information to users, the information accessed through such links on third-party websites is solely of a general informational nature. The EUIPO is not responsible for the statements, opinions and information expressed on those third-party websites, nor does the information provided on third-party websites necessarily reflect the views of the EUIPO. Responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of this content lies solely with those content providers and is not guaranteed by the EUIPO.

The EUIPO is neither responsible 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 that are, and will remain, under the sole control and responsibility of the third parties concerned. The EUIPO will in no way be liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in such content. 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.

The EUIPO may remove the Information or other content provided by third parties and uploaded to the Website at any time.

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 will apply to the EUIPO and its staff.

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