La Asociación Chilena de Propiedad Intelectual (Achipi) ha solicitida una revisión constitucional del Convenio de Cooperación en Materia de Patentes (PCT) para facilitar el registro de patentes extranjeras en Chile.Para que Chile pueda formar parte...
The Peruvian government has published Legislative Decree 1092/2008, which introduces border control measures for the protection of copyrights, trade mark rights and related rights. This Decree, which is part of the implementation of the US-Peru...
Con el objetivo de fomentar la protección y registro de los inventos de los mexicanos, se ha creado un centro de patentamiento en México, concretamente dentro del Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior...
Procompetencia -- Venezuela's National Antitrust and Unfair Competition Agency -- ruled on 21 May 2008 that well-known cosmetics company Grupo Transbel had engaged in unfair competition by running an advertising campaign that misled consumers into...
Writing in Variety, Charles Newbery takes a look at the current state of the Argentine movie sector. Cinema attendances have fallen sharply in recent months in the wake of the economic downturn. In the first...
Nos cuenta Gilberto Macias que desde el pasado mes de junio se están fomentando diversas acciones enfocadas a combatir el uso del software ilegal en la Ciudad de Guadalajara, México. Dichas acciones son promovidas conjuntamente...
In a decision of 16 April 2008 the Chilean Supreme Court rejected the application of Angel Custodio Cabrera to register the word trade mark IMAGINACION for "exhibition services for cultural and educative purposes; organization of...
IP Tango received this information from Juan M. Alvarez del Castillo V. (Cervantes, Aguilar-Alvarez y Sainz, S.C.) concerning an article published last week in the Reforma (Mexico City) newspaper: “This Monday, Anheuser Busch, producer of...
La semana pasada, la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente de Ecuador aprobó el texto final del proyecto de nueva Constitucion que será sometida a un referendum en el mes de septiembre de este año. La propiedad intelectual...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced that, on 30 June 2008, Costa Rica requested accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent...
El cantante Carlos Mejía Godoy, ex militante sandinista, confirmó AP que demandará al gobierno y al Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), por la vía civil y penal, por utilizar sus obras musicales en actos...
Otra interesante noticia de la mano de Gilberto Macias. Analizando los datos facilitados tanto por el Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial (IMPI) y del Departamento de Patentes de los EE.UU., se observa que durante...
Gilberto Maciás (Clarke y Modet) informa que la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas de los Estados Unidos de América (USPTO) ha emitido una interesante decisión que repercute directamente en los intereses y derechos de los...
Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors, Inc. (PIIPA) is seeking assistance from a suitably-qualified volunteer to assist a Colombian Indian Shaman-healer from the Putumayo region of the Amazon in Colombia. According to PIIPA, "In the 1970s-1980s,...
Two local papers -- Clarin and InfoBAE -- have carried reports that an unnamed seller of pirated DVDs, who was arrested in Argentina in May 2005 while selling 239 pirate discs in the street, has...
New Health Supplies Regulations came into force in Mexico on 1 February 2008, changing the previous practice for obtaining safety approvals for medicaments and addressing difficulties under the previous practice in enforcing the data protection...
Fox Business has reported that Meridian Co Ltd, a Canadian company engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and sales of advanced medical devices, has signed an exclusive distribution contract with International Medical Systems to sell...
This item is submitted by Richard N. Brown (De Sola Pate Brown), as a guest blogger. Richard writes:"My 1963 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica says the following about Tropical Medicine: “Diseases of tropical climates reach...
Controversial international argicultural biotech business Monsanto Company reports that it has completed its acquisition of Marmot, S.A. Marmot operates Semillas Cristiani Burkard (SCB), a privately-held seed company based in Guatemala City. SCB is the leading...
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On 23 June 2008 the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) issued Resolution RDC 45 on the approval process for patent applications for pharmaceutical products and processes. This resolution is made under Article 229-C of...
El gobierno peruano publicó el día 28 de junio un decreto legislativo que contiene una serie de disposiciones que son complementarias a la Decisión N° 486 de la Comisión de la Comunidad Andina (CAN) que...
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