IP infringement and capacity to sue in Brazil
Recently the following issue was brought to the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (STJ): does a company have the capacity to sue, in its own name and behalf, a third party who infringes an IP...
Friday, 28 August 2009
LA dominates "Americas" supplement
The latest supplement to the three intellectual property titles Trademark World, Patent World and Copyright World, published by Informa Law, is called "The Americas". This supplement carries no fewer than eleven articles on developments in Latin America and just one from the United States.The topics featured include IP specialisation of the courts in Brazil (by Paulo Parente Marques Mendes of Di Blasi, Parente, Vaz e Dias), a review of the effect of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement by Estudio Colmenares' Carmen Arana and the increasingly sensitive issue of IP protection in Venezuela (Ricardo Rojas Gaona, Jesus Lopez and Cristina Imparato (Glaham Abogados).
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Brasil vs. Unión Europea: Lucha por genéricos
Brasil prepara un litigio contra la Unión Europea (UE) en la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC).El problema se centra en que los europeos captan sistemáticamente los genéricos en tránsito para los países en desarrollo, lo...
Saturday, 15 August 2009
El ALBA debate sobre propiedad intelectual
Gracias a Alfonso Rivera (Tovar y Bustamante) hemos sabido que en el seno de la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) está surgiendo un debate sobre la necesidad de fundar una política...
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Annulment appeal invoked again in Chile
Another useful item from the INTA Bulletin, August 1, 2009 (Vol. 64, No. 14) concerns a decision of the Chilean Supreme Court this May in an annulment appeal proceeding -- this being just the second...
Thursday, 6 August 2009
EPO adds Colombia to its bibliographic database
Important news for those seeking information concerning patents, innovation and the prior art in Latin America comes with the announcement that, from week 33/2009 onwards (i.e. the week beginning 10 August), data from Colombia will...
El Sistema de Transporte Colectivo del D.F. y la Piratería.
La venta de discos piratas y clones de DVD por parte de los vagoneros en el Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC) Metro representa fuertes perdidas económicas para la industria de la música y el cine.En...
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Colombia edges towards Madrid Protocol
The INTA Bulletin, Vol.64, No.14 (1 August 2009) mentions how, this June, the Second Commission of the Senate approved Government Bill No. 277 of 2009, which would enable Colombia to sign up to the increasingly-popular...
Google y Yahoo condenados por daño moral en Argentina
Según nos ha hecho saber Guillermo Navarro, el portal iprofesional.com, informa que la Justicia argentina ha condenado a Yahoo y a Google a indenmizar a la ex Bandana Virginia Da Cunha por un monto de...
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Slogan or design? If you've got VTR perhaps it doesn't matter ...
The INTA Bulletin, Vol. 64, No. 14 (August 1, 2009) reports on the decision the Chilean Intellectual Property Court of Appeals (1 April 2009) to reverse the first instance decision of the Chilean Industrial Property...
