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Since 11 November 2013 the Greek Ministry for Development and Competiveness (GGE) and the Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office (OMPIC) have made theirtrade mark data available to the TMview search tool.

The integration of OMPIC is a concrete result of the collaboration between OMPIC and OHIM established after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inJune 2013 as part of OHIM’s International Cooperation programme.

In terms of GGE, it is the outcome of the Cooperation Fund programme managed by OHIM in collaboration with its EU partners. With GGE on board, the integration of all EU offices in TMview is complete.

This last extension brings the total number of offices participating in TMview to 32 and with the addition of nearly230.000 Greek trade marks and almost 160.000Moroccan trade marks, TMview now provides information and access tomore than 13,2million trade marks in total.

Since the introduction of TMview on 13 April 2010, the tool has served more than 4,8million searches from 203 different countries, with users from Spain, Germany and Italy among the most frequent visitors.

You can find out more at www.tmview.europa.eu.