Dimitris Botis Author

Dimitris Botis represents the OHIM before the General Court and Court of Justice and has dealt with files that have had a major impact on EU trade mark law. He has participated in numerous projects and conferences in the field of trade mark law, such as the drafting of the OHIM guidelines, exchanges with TM Offices and Courts both in the EU and worldwide (Supreme Administrative Court of Poland, Japanese, Indonesian, Danish and Norwegian Patent Offices, as well as in academic events (Queen Mary University of London, University of Alicante, OHIM University Network etc.). Spyros Maniatis has published extensively in the field of trade marks. He has been teaching trade mark law from an international and comparative perspective from more than twenty years and has played a key role in educating the professions in the UK, teaching for the Certificate in IP at Queen Mary and devising and teaching, with Imogen Wiseman, the new specialist Certificate in Trade Mark Law with ITMA. Alexander Mühlendahl holds academic visiting professorial appointments with Max Planck and QMUL. From January 2013 he will be teaching trade mark law with Spyros Maniatis for the new QMUL LL.M offered in Paris. Imogen Wiseman is co-editor of the ITMA/CIPA CTM Handbook and the ITMA/CIPA Community Designs Handbook. Examiner and lecturer for ITMA professional. She has been teaching trade mark law for ITMA for the last ten years and currently is teaching with Spyros Maniatis on the Certificate in Trade Mark Law.