On the 28th of September 2012 Malta joined TMview, a site which went live on the 13th of April 2010. Since joining, circa 50,000 trademarks registered with the Maltese National IP Office have now been added to the TMview search tool which provides free access to trademark applications and registrations from a number of European based trademark offices.

As of January 2013, twenty-five offices have made their trademark data available to TMview. Besides Malta, these are: Austria, Bulgaria, Benelux, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM).

For further information kindly visit the TMview website: www.tmview.europa.eu