By an executive Decree (No 181), the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, ordered the creation of a public drug company called ENFARMA PA. The purpose of this company includes research and development of active ingredients...
For the third time in less than a week, a Court in Argentina suspended some of the articles of the Audiovisual Media Law. No much information is given on the case as such but certainly...
Weeks ago we brought to your attention the sets of regulations seeking to control the content of the media and its activities in Latin America.Yesterday, a Court in Argentina suspended two articles of the Audiovisual...
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA: Jimmy Donal Wales, Wikipedia’s co-founder and co-creator, announced that by January there will be a Wikipedia on DVD. The initiative was introduced by Wikipedia Argentina and Educ.ar which is an online learning...
Según informa el NIC Argentina durante el 2010 se implementará un nuevo sistema de registro y administración de nombres de dominio.Por tal motivo, se informa que todas las Entidades Registrantes deberán regularizar sus datos registrales....
I've just learned from my friends at Lexsynergy that the .do top level domain (TLD) is making the Dominican Republic an attractive place for the registration of second level domains which make a pun on...
Bogota, Colombia: el tiempo newspaper reports that yesterday about 1,000 counterfeited bottles of whisky were found in a house. The bottles are said to be from well-known foreign trade marks. According to preliminary investigations, the...
The New Herald newspaper informs the statement given by Microsoft. It is reported that Colombia alone registered more than US$ 136 million in losses from illegal software in 2009.The Microsoft’s manager for Colombia explained that...
Durante la clausura del 5º Congreso Mundial para Combatir la Falsificación y la Piratería , que tuvo lugar en Cancún, del 1 al 3 de diciembre pasados, se alentó a empresarios y políticos, tanto...
It seems that the market for generic pharma products in Brazil -- estimated to surge 26% per annum -- is a lively and profitable one, judging by one recent deal. According to Pharma Times ("Pfizer...
In Mexico, the volume of counterfeit perfumes is superior to genuine ones. According to William Hidalgo, National Chamber of Industry of the Perfumes and Cosmetics (Canipec)’s president, reveals that data collected from suppliers of raw...
The Cuban newspaper ‘Juventud Revelde’ reports that Google has blocked the webpage navigator Zeitgeist. Added to this, the Cubans Google Earth, Google Destktop Search, Google Code, Google Toolbar and Chrome are also upon those that...
Según ha informado el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, la Corporación de la Propiedad Intelectual de Malasia inscribió la denominación de origen “pisco” a favor de Perú.Me pregunto si el Gobierno de Chile intentará o ha intentado obtener la misma protección para su Pisco.
Mejor no hablar mucho del tema, que los recuerdos que tengo del Pisco Sour en el Chicha me quitan las ganas de seguir escribiendo…
El miércoles 25 de noviembre se dio sanción en la Cámara de Diputados a la modificación de la Ley 11723 de Propiedad Intelectual agregando el art. 5 bis donde en la misma se establece especialmente...
The forum titled "The patents as element of exclusion and limit to the health of the town", which was lectured in Venezuela, saw the head of different institutions united. Last Thursday, the Venezuelan Minister of...
Christmas time appears to be a good moment for the National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) to launch a security check campaign. The institution is working on the...
The Brazilian government is under strong internal pressure as the World Trade Organization (WTO) has recently upheld the Brazilian complaint against the United States due to the subsidies granted to cotton producers.The concern has been...
Peru - the National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI in Spanish), destroyed almost two tonnes of expired and empty packaging of medicines (click here for the INDECOPI's news)....
Según los cálculos de la American Chamber la respuesta no es solo afirmativa, sino qué, la piratería dobla prácticamente los ingresos del narcotráfico.Difícil de creer, si, pero un claro reflejo de la realidad. Según...
Following yesterday’s news, Ricardo Antequera Parilli of Estudio Antequera Parilli & Rodriguez, has written to the blog with the following points: “a) Despite of the Declaration of the Minister of Commerce by which it was...
The country’s Minister of Trade, Eduardo Saman, declared that the Government invalidated two registered pharmaceutical patents for the antibiotic moxiflocaxin produced by multinational Bayer.The move comes after Bayer initiated civil lawsuits against two national companies...
The Ibero-American Heads of State and Governments are meeting for two days (30 November and 01 December) in Estoril, Portugal. The twenty two members are looking to promote, as the theme suggest, innovation and knowledge...
Obviamente no se trata de una carrera de la F1, si no de un pleito iniciado por el piloto brasileño Rubens Barrichello en contra del buscador por lesiones a su honor, en concreto se trata...
Last week, the Colombia’s capital has seen the EU and Peru and Colombia negotiating an Association Agreement. This Agreement concerns three issues: Free trade Agreement, cooperation and a form of political dialogue. However, according to...
The visit of the Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva to Mr. Gordon Brown on November 4, 2009 at 10 Downing Street had the clear purpose of securing assistance and technology transfer for the...
Gracias a Ricardo Antequera he tenido conocimiento del Centro Colombiano del Derecho de Autor (CECOLDA), asociación de más de 18 años de existencia. Su web site proporciona abundantes noticias (a través del Boletin informativo mensual),...
Last Monday the National Assembly of Ecuador debated the ‘Communication Law’ which regulates the media in the country (click here for article). More than 60% of the law was approved and now waits to be...
En su sesión del 5 de noviembre 2009, el Pleno del Congreso de la República aprobó por 66 votos a favor y ningún voto en contra u abstenciones, la Resolución Legislativa No. 3426 que aprueba...
A recent article describes how the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property improved the electronic services that it provides to the public. In recent years it has created both (i) Banapat, a patent and trade mark...
In "Brazil Issues Retaliation List of US Products; IP-Protected Items In Next Round", Intellectual Property Watch's Clauda Jurberg relates that Brazil has now announced the list of 222 American products that could suffer retaliation with...
Wine piracy appears to be a common phenomenon for markets such as China and Europe. The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reports that 30% of European wines sold worldwide are counterfeit. The amount rises abruptly in...
On October 29, the Brazilian Government and Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) laid the foundation stone for the creation of a specific law to regulate internet legal matters.Unusually, the Government has decided to launch a public...
Writing for International Law Office ("First Scent Trademark Registered"), Juan Martín Aulmann and Daniel R Zuccherino (Obligado & Cia) review the current Argentine provisions on the registration of non-traditional signs as trade marks. Of particular...
Marlene Prada Bautista applied to register at the INDECOPI a figurative mark featuring a rectangular label which contains the stylized shape of a woman’s body and the word mark ‘fájate’; colour was not claimed. The...
Back in September, a group of people from the wine industry (vineyard owners, winemakers, academics, advisers, among others) which is lead by the Wines of Chile, are meeting weekly to work on a new map...
A post earlier today in Fashionista-at-Law warns that veteran cosmetics company Avon is setting its sites on Latin America. Citing Brand Channel as its source, Fashionista says: "After seeing its sales take a bit of...
The Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has been recently providing goods news and making strong efforts to enhance the quality of its services, especially on patent and trademark prosecution matters. Last October 30,...
Back in 2008, Shell, the oil company stated its intention of selling its Central American operations. One year later, the Honduran company has won the competition for Shell’s distribution and operation in Guatemala, Nicaragua and...
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