Sony, la marca más amada en México
A pesar de la depresión en el consumo, el 75% de los ejecutivos mexicanos ubica a Sony como la marca líder en electrónicos, según el estudio Las mejores marcas en México de HSM y Millward...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Peru commits to Budapest Treaty
By Budapest Notification No. 261 WIPO confirms the deposit by the Government of the Republic of Peru, on 20 October 2008, of its instrument of accession to the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of...
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Bob's and Doggis fast food operations in cross-border franchise deal
MarketWatch reports that Brazil Fast Food Corp. has announced that it has agreed with Grupo de Empresas Doggis (GED) to cross-franchise the Bob's and Doggis brands in Chile and Brazil, respectively. Brazil Fast Food is...
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Venezuela rejects Decision 486
On 12 September 2008 the Director General of Venezuela's Trade Mark Office announced officially that Andean Community Decision 486 on a Common Industrial Property Regime was no longer applicable in Venezuela and that the only...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Argentine INPI moves to cut patent application backlog
The Argentine Industrial Property Office (INPI) recently enacted two new resolutions:* Resolution 178/08, under which the INPI required all patent applicants who filed an application before 1 January 2008 to submit, within a 90-day period,...
Monday, 20 October 2008
Free speech amendment to boost biographies
The Commission of Constituency and Justice of the House of Representatives in Brazil has approved Bill 3378/2008. This seeks to amend Article 20 of the Civil Code in order to authorize the creation of artistic...
COMPULSORY LICENSED DRUG - EFAVIRENZ - WILL BE MANUFACTURED BY PUBLIC BRAZILIAN LABORATORIES BY THE END OF 2008
MERCK SHARP & DOME markets, under the brand name EFAVIRENZ, the most used drug in Brazil against HIV/AIDS. In a universe of 200.000 Brazilians infected with this disease in, approximately 80.0000 take this drug.This drug...
Friday, 17 October 2008
Cemex la marca mexicana mejor valuada
La consultora Interbrand ubicó a Cemex como la principal compañía mexicana por encima de otras tan conocidas como Bimbo, Telcel, Telmex, Televisa, Banamex, Banorte y TV Azteca.Según el ranking de 2008, primero que Interbrand realiza...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
FINESSE, MEN's FITNESS confusingly similar, rules Colombia Council
Mariz Gestao e Investimentos Limitada sought to register the words MEN'S FITNESS as a trade mark for goods in Class 25. Colombian company Alpina Productos Alimenticios SA opposed, saying that mark was confusingly similar to...
Monday, 13 October 2008
ADR in IP contracts under threat in Venezuela
In July of this year the Supreme Court of Venezuela agreed to entertain a reference for a preliminary ruling filed by the Office of the Attorney General on the applicability of Article 258 of the...
Friday, 10 October 2008
Colombia changes trade name deposit requirements
Opinion 08048285 of 20 June 2008 of the Colombian Trademark Office amends its practice with regard to the deposit of trade names. Previously, trade names deposited before the coming into force of Andean Pact Decision...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Chile se adhiere al PCT/Chile joins PCT
Segun informa Rodrigo Ramirez, el Senado de Chile acaba de ratificar el Tratado de cooperación en materia de patentes (PCT). Con ello, Chile cumple con los compromiso asumidos en los tratados de libre comercio ratificados...
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Disclaimers in Argentine trade mark practice
Argentine trade mark law makes no explicit provision for the disclaimer of unregistrable elements of a trade mark. However, Disposition No. 70 of the Argentine National Institute of Industrial Property establishes the formalities required to...
Monday, 6 October 2008
New Procedure at the Brazilian Patent Office for the Application of Article 32 of the Industrial Property Law
The Brazilian Patent Office (hereinafter only BPO) issued on 25th April 2008 a New Procedure specifically related to the application of Article 32 of the Brazilian Industrial Property Law (Brazilian IP Law).This New Procedure aims...
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
IDNs to be registrable in Argentina
NIC Argentina, the registry responsible for the .ar country-code top-level domain, launched the registration of internationalized domain names (IDNs) on 8 September 2008. While the Spanish language uses the Roman script, it also uses letters...
México: Patente sobre tecnología para combustibles limpios
Recién nos hemos enterado que el Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP) ha desarrollado un material a base de nanotubos de óxido de titanio que elimina el nitrógeno y azufre contenidos en gasóleos y en combustibles....
