rade Mark, Design and Patent applicants are receiving communications from companies who, trying to appear as official organizations, request payment of a registration fee.
The latests companys spotted are the one operating through the communications reproduced below; however there are many more under different names and acronyms:
The registration they offer is completely useless and unnecessary, has no official value, and could be qualified as a fraudulent practice.
We therefore kindly request you to ignore these communications and destroy them or, if you wish, contact us for clarification.
For more information, you may click the following links from OHIM, SPTO, WIPO and EPO:
http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/pages/CTM/feesPayment/warning.es.do
http://www.oepm.es/en/sobre_oepm/advertencias_oepm/advertencia_2/index.html
http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/fees/warning.html
http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/official-journal/information-epo/archive/20121127.html