May 2016 Article in Beauty Industry Reports: Cosmoprof Bologna Sets Records
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May 2016 Article in Beauty Industry Reports: Cosmoprof Bologna Sets Records
Conkle, Kremer & Engel has decades of experience in providing expert legal guidance to clients in the beauty industry. CK&E is proud to be a guest contributor for Beauty Industry Report and to be recognized as a trusted source of industry information for its readers.
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DermaQuest offers a comprehensive line of outstanding skincare products for the professional and retail market. Sam Dhatt is lead chemist and CEO of DermaQuest. Sam is here pictured at the DermaQuest booth at Cosmoprof Bologna with his wife Renu and Kim Sim of Conkle, Kremer & Engel (right to left). Sam directs DermaQuest with over 20 years of experience, knowledge and understanding about the multifaceted world of skincare. Sam has formulated and created skincare products for hundreds of companies since founding DermaQuest in 1999.
CK&E is pleased to be able to work with DermaQuest and many other excellent beauty product manufacturers to advance and expand their worldwide business.
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Conkle, Kremer & Engel attorneys Mark Kremer and Kim Sim will be at the California Pavilion to help clients take full advantage of the unique opportunities to establish and build overseas markets and build strategic alliances. Email them to arrange a meeting at the California Pavilion, or just stop by – they’re at Hall 30, Stand No. E28-F31 & E31-D34.
As developed in discussions at Cosmoprof, a critical issue for many U.S. exhibitors entering the EU market is the July 2013 Cosmetics Regulation (EU Reg. 1223/2009) that overhauled the European Union’s regulatory landscape for personal care products. The Regulations introduced a number of new requirements, including labeling for nanomaterials such as titanium dioxide, claim verification standards and an EU-wide ban on animal testing. As a brief introduction to the new requirements, the EU distilled the July 2013 Cosmetics Regulation into the simplified infographic shown here.
Under the new Regulation, each manufacturer selling cosmetic products into the EU must designate a person or business entity physically located in the EU that will serve as the manufacturer’s designated “responsible person” for compliance with the Regulation. CK&E has strong working relationships and regularly works with such “responsible persons” who can be engaged to assist businesses seeking to expand into the EU. CK&E is pleased to participate in industry events such as Cosmoprof Bologna and programs such as BIMA, to help U.S. entrepreneurs expand into the EU and to assist foreign manufacturers develop and secure markets for their products in California and throughout the United States.
Mark contributes to the BIMA educational program by teaching modules on domestic and foreign intellectual property protection, domestic regulatory compliance, and international distribution agreements. Participants are particularly interested in cost-effective methods of protecting their intellectual property internationally, such as international trademark registrations through the Madrid System. The Madrid System offers a centralized application process for trademark registration in over 90 countries based on a brand owner’s domestic application or registration. Participants are also interested in CK&E’s practical approach to domestic regulatory compliance, including California’s evolving green chemistry initiative, Safe Cosmetics Act and Proposition 65. Participants have also benefited from CK&E’s tips for forging fruitful business relationships with distributors, based on decades of experience representing clients in the personal care products industry.
CK&E will join Patty Schmucker and several graduates of the BIMA educational program to Cosmoprof Worldwide in Bologna in April 2014. Mark looks forward to the next BIMA session, which begins on June 26, 2014. Click for further information about joining the BIMA program: BIMA_Summer-Fall_2014