Can a parody involving TV shows and actors of a broadcasting company be considered a form of unfair competition? According to GLOBO, the biggest broadcasting company in Brazil, the answer is yes, especially when it is...
The 21 May 2009 issue of the World Media Law Report carries a feature by José Mauro Decoussau Machado, of Pinheiro Neto Advogados (Sao Paulo, Brazil), on the Brazilian government's current thoughts regarding Federal Law...
Gracias a Guillermo Navarro, hemos conocido que Argentina ha adoptado el Decreto 556/2009 que reglamenta la Ley Nº 25.380 y su modificatoria Nº 25.966 donde se estableció el Régimen Legal para las Indicaciones Geográficas y...
Según informa Juan Angel Garza Vite (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León), el IMPI tiene que decidir en breve si liberan los dos medicamentos antivirales para la lucha contra la gripe porcina (o A/H1N1). Tales medicamentos...
The INTA Bulletin, Vol. 64, No. 9 (1 May 2009) reports that this February, ten years after it was enacted, Dominica's new trade mark legislation -- the Marks, Collective Marks and Trade Names Act 1999...
Intellectual Property Watch carries an article by Catherine Saez, picked up here by The 1709 Blog, on the criminal prosecution proceedings brought against an Argentinean Professor, Horacio Potel, for making available online a Spanish translation...
Last month the Federal General Attorney filed at the Federal Supreme Court a legal action claiming the unconstitutionality (“Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade”) of articles 230 and 231 of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Act (only IP...
From January through March of this year, the Brazilian Health National Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) and the Ministry of Justice organized and led a joint massive seizure campaign against counterfeit and illegal drugs in the Brazilian...
NIC Bolivia, the registry responsible for Bolivia's .bo country-code top-level domain, has now adopted a variation of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for the determination of local domain name disputes.Apart from the...
As of 5 May 2009, in result of an initiative taken by the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), it has been possible to conduct an online search of the Brazilian PTO's database in order...
El Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial (IMPI) informa que el 5º Congreso Mundial para Combatir la Falsificación y la Piratería, planeado inicialmente para llevarse a cabo en Cancún, Quintana Roo del 2 al...
An article in The Independent newspaper warns of the dangers of counterfeit drugs, with fake celebrity endorsements, as tourists and others continue to flee from Mexico following the outbreak of Swine Flu. According to the...
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