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...
Alfredo Bryce Echenique, known as the winner of the ‘Premio Planeta 2002’ for his novel “ the garden of my beloved” has been sentenced by the INDECOPI.The decision comes after the writer allegedly copied 16...
The biggest social network, which has more than 300 million users, has expressed its intention for closer relations in the Latin American market. Michael Murphy, worldwide sales vicepresidente at Facebook, explained that Facebook is a...
Essential Action is an organisation which is involved in a variety of projects, mainly encouraging citizens to become more connected in their communities. At the moment, the organisation is working in Ecuador providing technical and...
El ICANN, organismo que se encarga de gestionar lo relacionado con los dominios en Internet, acaba de aprobar el uso de cualquier alfabeto en la creación de direcciones de Internet.Tras una reunión que tuvo...
Sify News reports that the International Olympic Committee and the Brazilian authorities have held a two-day meeting in order to draw up a formal action plan for the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil was represented by...
In what has become a classical issue in recent years, the battle between the examination of pharmaceutical patent applications by the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) and the Health National Surveillance Agency, also known...
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