Welcome to our blog for Intellectual Property Law and Practice in Latin America!
¡Bienvenidos a nuestro blog de Derecho y Práctica de la Propiedad Intelectual en Latinoamérica!
Bem-vindo ao nosso blog sobre Direito e Prática de Propriedade Intelectual na América Latina!

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

INDECOPI inspecting genuine use of software in local businesses

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The Peruvian Institute of Unfair competition and Protection of IP (INDECOPI) is monitoring some businesses in order to verify that they are using genuine software in their computers. So far, in the city of Chiclayo,...

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Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Ecuador has a new Data Act

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Yesterday, the Ecuadorian Assembly approved the National Public Data Registry Law. The new legislation involves developing a public database containing information of all citizens.The legislation provides that the information contained in Civil, Commercial and Property...

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Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Chile: Counterfeiting and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed on January 11, 2010, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) access agreement and thus enabled Chile to become the second Latin American country to be accepted as...

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Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Jeremy

Peru edges towards adoption of Hague Apostille provisions

A note in volume 65, no.2 of the INTA Bulletin (January 15, 2010) records that, on November 9, 2009, Peru's Congress approved that country's accession to the Hague Apostille Convention. The Convention will not however...

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Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Chile: Consecuencias del uso del PowerPoint Pirateado

Rodrigo Ramírez, de Chile, nos ha aclarado que los hechos narrados en mi post anterior acontecieron en el mes de enero, pero del 2009!!Por lo que, tras más de un año de que se...

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Monday, 25 January 2010

Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martinez

El chileno Maximiliano Santa Cruz reelegido presidente del SPC

En reunión llevada a cabo hoy en Ginebra, Suiza, el abogado Maximiliano Santa Cruz Scantlebury, actual director del Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial de Chile (INAPI), fue reelegido por los países miembros de la Organización...

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Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Chile: Exponen Ley del Derecho de Autor con PowerPoint Pirateado.

Durante una charla en la ciudad de Antofagasta, en el norte de Chile, Fernando Ubiergo, presidente de la Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor (SCD), disertó hace unos días sobre un proyecto de Ley del...

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Patricia Covarrubia

EU Free Trade Agreements with Latin America = no points

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The blog has been following the FTA that the EU is trying to do with three Latin America blocs ( see info here and here). The expectation is to sign the agreements during the Ibero-American...

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Sunday, 24 January 2010

José Carlos Vaz e Dias

FIFA SETS A BROADCAST REGULATION AND GETS THE DISAPPROVAL OF THE BRAZILIANS: WILL THE PUBLIC GATHERING FOR THE 2010 WORLD CUP BE AT STAKE?

Last Thursday was a bitter day for the Brazilian owners of commercial establishments and party organizers. While pubs, bars, restaurants owners and organizers of open spaces in urban areas as well as in rural communities...

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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Jeremy

WIPO Magazine's LA content

Latin America IP enthusiasts will be pleased to see that the current issue of the World Intellectual Property Organization's bimonthly WIPO Magazine contains two articles which focus closely on Latin American topics.The first, "Ecuador 2009...

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Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Internet domains .mx reduced in price

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NIC Mexico, the independent organization that manages the country code top level domain .mx, has announced the reduction of tariff in domain registration and renewal. On February 1st, the price reduction will be applied in...

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Jeremy

IP Tango: time for a change?

Yesterday the IP Tango team spent a great deal of time corresponding with each other over the appearance of the blog. In particular * was it time for a change? * should the weblog look...

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Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

The EU meeting with Latin America: will be May the month to see Association Agreements between the two?

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Newspapers from different countries appear to have woken up with optimistic moods. From two different Latin America blocs I examined that Mercosur and the nations of Isthmus are confident to resume negotiations on Association Agreements...

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Jeremy

Mexican Supreme Court pharma patent ruling

Via Phil Cox (Director, Global Law Marketing) comes this information from Mexican IP law specialists Olivares & Cia, which acted for the successful party in proceedings which ended with a ruling by the Mexican Supreme...

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Monday, 18 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

IP Border Measures

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Last week the blog brought you some news regarding counterfeit medicines. In the same article, it was posted a moot question enquiring generic medicines and the scope of IP legislation when the medicines were placed...

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Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

EE.UU. bloquea azúcar de Costa Rica por no reformar su ley de Propiedad Intelectual.

Interesante noticia sobre un nuevo capítulo de los conflictos que surgen en relación con la protección de la propiedad intelectual, para algunos inapropiada y para otros tan excesiva.Según reportan varios medios los Estados Unidos...

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Friday, 15 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Diego Maradona: an image that sells

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Today’s news (el Nuevo Herald) refers to Maradona, one of the world greatest footballers – a legend, who is preparing to open his own cable TV and internet.The launch is taken place in Mexico, and...

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Thursday, 14 January 2010

Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martinez

Chile: el Senado vota a favor de la reforma de la LPI

El 13 de enero el Senado chileno aprobó el veto presidencial a la modificación de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, relativo a una norma especial que regula la reunión de personas para la comisión de...

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Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

México: El ACTA y la privacidad en Internet

El Gobierno de México está en busca de puntos de vista de mexicanos sobre el Acuerdo_Comercial_Anti-Falsificación (ACTA), acuerdo que, entre otras cosas, pretende combatir la piratería a base de la restricción a enviar información...

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Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Argentina: custom confiscates counterfeit medicines

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A shipment originating from China was seized by the Customs at the port of Buenos Aires. The container was allegedly carrying electric lamps but instead they found 400,000 tablets of counterfeit medicines (info here). The...

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Patricia Covarrubia

Mexico: OECD recommends science secretariat

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As you might have heard, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) is an organisation that unites different governments around the world (currently 31 members). The aim is to support and to raise their economic...

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Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Iniciativa de ley para controlar el contenido de las redes sociales en México.

Hay noticias que de verdad no sabes si echarte a reír o preocuparte por el rumbo que pueden tomar las cosas.Dicha reflexión se debe a la iniciativa de ley, que pretende presentar el secretario de...

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Patricia Covarrubia

Heineken to expand its market in Latin America

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It is reported that Heineken NV will buy the beer business of Mexico's Fomento Economico Mexicano SA (FEMSA) in a US$7.9 billion deal. FEMSA is Latin America’s biggest drinks firm, being the second biggest Coca-Cola...

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Monday, 11 January 2010

José Carlos Vaz e Dias

INPI is Called Upon to Assist the Fight Against Piracy in Brazil

Since December 21, 2009 the Summer vacation and its festivities have begun in the Brazilian territory. All the free time, empowered by the 13rd. salary set out by the Brazilian labour legislation, has been encouraging...

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Patricia Covarrubia

Chile accede a la OCDE / Chile joins OECD

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El lunes 11 de enero el secretario general de la OCDE, Angel Gurría y Andrés Velasco ministro de Hacienda de Chile, firmaron en Santiago el convenio de adhesión de este país a la Organización para...

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Patricia Covarrubia

Bolivia: tougher sanctions against counterfeit medicines

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The measure comes after police seizure 40 tonnes of adulterated drugs between December and January. It appears that the majority of counterfeit came from an importer company called ESKE SRL. The said company was selling...

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Saturday, 9 January 2010

Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martinez

Ecuador: condena al Tribunal supremo electoral como responsable solidario por violación de derechos de autor

Alfonso Rivera (Tovar y Bustamante) ha hecho llegar a IP Tango una reciente resolución del IEP en la que, por primera vez en Ecuador, se sanciona a un organismo del Estado (en este caso al...

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Friday, 8 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Madrid Protocol in Latin America: a nightmare or a dream?

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Adam Smith, reporter for the World Trademark Review (WTR), investigates the possible accession to the Madrid Protocol of some jurisdictions in Latin America. In the latest edition of WTR (23), under the title ‘2010: Madrid...

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Patricia Covarrubia

Mexico: Starbucks may pay for the use of pre-Columbian royalty images

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The Mexican government said that it has notified the company Starbucks Corp. for the potential violation of Intellectual Property Rights.The Mexican Archeological Agency explains that Starbucks is using, in its cups and jars, images of...

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Thursday, 7 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Bolivian government creates indigenous pharmaceutical

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The New Herald reports that the Bolivian government will launch a pharmaceutical company with remedies of traditional indigenous medicine. The Health Minister, Ramiro Tapia, informed that they have invested 10 million dollars in this project....

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Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Global Game Jam Internacional 2010 - is this the X factor of the video game production?

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If you have not heard of the Global Game Jam (GGJ), here is some information that will help to become familiar with it. The GGJ is a 48 hour game development event in which teams...

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Patricia Covarrubia

Coca-colla picture

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Well, I believe that with this picture I make my case!Many thanks to the anonymous person who sent the link....

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Patricia Covarrubia

Coca- Colla, the Bolivian drink

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Last weekend all major Latin American newspapers reported that Bolivia will start producing an energy soft drink made from coca leaves. The name chosen is ‘Coca-Colla’ and it will be presented in a bottle...

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Jeremy

Copyright reform in Brazil: challenges of the digital age

In "Copyright Law Reform in Brazil: Anteprojeto or Anti-project?" (Intellectual Property Watch, 23 December 2009), media sociologist Ralf Volker Grassmuck writes in some detail about proposals to reform Brazil's copyright law. According to the abstract,...

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Monday, 4 January 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Venezuela: violent video games and toys are banned

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The EFE news agency published a video report on the banning of violent video games and toy weapons in Venezuela. The government of Rafael Hugo Chávez accuses these games of fostering crime.Venezuela appears to be...

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