The eMARKS project has reached its official end on February 28th, 2009.
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The eMARKS Final Workshop with title “IT and Enforcement of IPR within the Knowledge Society” which took place in Lisbon, Portugal on February 12th, 2009 completed successfully.
eMARKS will optimise the protection of Trademarks/Industrial Designs by offering a service that enables, currently lacking, image-based searches of Trademarks or Industrial Designs kept by IPOs. Given an image representing a Trademark or an Industrial Design, eMARKS allows users, (such as IPR professionals, lawyers, SMEs, Public Services combating counterfeiting crime such as Customs, Police etc.), to identify similar Trademarks or Industrial Designs registered with EU Industrial Property Offices. Image-based search on Trademarks or Industrial Designs is further assisted with natural language, multi-lingual semantic qualification of the categories of interest.
eMARKS will be offered as a complementary search service to the existing search services provided, mostly, publicly by the IPOs for the protection of Trademarks and Industrial Designs. eMARKS is offered as an Internet based service.
eMARKS will build upon the working prototype that has been developed and tested through the eMAGE project under eContent Programme (EDC-11152/28713). The developed and tested technology includes an appropriate image analysis and content-based retrieval engine, a multi-lingual natural language processing server, semi-automatic tools for content enrichment and loading of registered Trademark/Industrial Design images and related metadata information.
The eMAGE working prototype has been successfully trialled by more than 81 Trademark and Industrial design professionals and experts in 4 locations (France, Portugal, Austria and Hungary) in a period of 1 year.
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