The OHIM Website and the New ‘dot eu’ Domain Name
In the context of today’s business world, and particularly of the relationship between an organisation like the OHIM and its users, it is difficult to imagine how the day-to-day working of the Office could exist without a well-functioning web page.
Options ranging from the online filing of a Community trade mark or of a registered Community design application to making consultations in trade mark and design databases are services which are now taken for granted by anyone accessing the Office’s e-systems – now at the new
www.oami.europa.eu address.
However, with a website with over half a million visitors and nearly ten million individual page requests every month, the OHIM has to ensure that this tool is as user-friendly as possible, as well as offering the highest possible quality in terms of both the e-services provided and the technology used.
Between 1994 and 1998, in the absence of the Office’s own website, an OHIM webpage existed on the European Commission’s Internet portal, containing purely institutional information regarding the Office.
