Dear users,
The Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria alerts you that a new fraud is spreading among the users of EUIPO services, in the form of a fake renewal invoice, issued by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). This fraud is very similar to the one, which has been recently reported about invoices, related to services of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Anonymized examples of such fake invoices are published in the list of misleading invoices on the EUIPO’s website. The most remarkable and distinctive features of these fake renewal invoices is the use of: EUIPO logo, name, abbreviation and other official information, such as the address of the institution.
The misleading invoice is mailed to users from Geneva, Switzerland, and includes a demand for a “registration and entry fee” to be transferred to a Polish bank account with a PL IBAN prefix. For more information on this fraud, please read the EUIPO website at the following link:
In addition to the warnings on its website and in order to inform a wider range of users, EUIPO has also launched a social media campaign on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Here are the links to the publications on the case:
For the purpose of greater awareness, service users can also read the published article from "IP Management" related to such frauds with fake invoices.
For those who have an IP Management subscription, you can read the same at the following link:
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