IBM México lanza un nuevo dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos con una capacidad de 180 terabytes (la de cosas que podemos guardar!!), basado en tecnología de disco duro de última generación. Dicho dispositivo cuenta con...
IP Watch informs that Peru, Colombia and the European Union have reached an agreement on the the content of the section concerning Intellectual Property of their Free Trade Agreement. According to the information in IP...
ACTA is a proposed plurilateral agreement which aims to establish international standards on IPRs. The treaty is not part of any international agreement and it is criticised as being too severe. From Latin America, the...
The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI, in Spanish) announces that from February to April it will be conducting surveys in two of its cities (ciudad de León and Guanajuato). The purpose is, according to...
Today’s front page of the Mercurio newspaper reports that in 2009 more than half a million counterfeit goods were seized in shops and malls.According to the head of the Brigade of Intellectual Property, Patricio Bascuñán,...
Gracias a Gustavo Rodriguez, abogado de los solicitantes, hemos sabido que "el Indecopi de Perú declaró infundado el recurso de reconsideración presentado por los solicitantes del signo El Pezweón y figura por considerar que resulta...
This week Cuba celebrates the largest international meeting for the best tobacco -‘Habanos’. This year, the event is dedicated to the female market and will honour two Habanos' brands, 'Cohiba' and 'Romeo y Julieta'.Producers, traders,...
An article on BrandChannel ("The Grapes Of Wrath: Chilean Wine Brands Taking A Beating", by Russ Josephs, 16 February, makes depressing reading for Chilean wine businesses that have sought to position their products at the...
Central AmericaThe eighth round of negotiations towards a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and Central America is around the corner. However, there is concern regarding the EU ambitious on Intellectual Property. The main...
Launch in 2007, this electronic device (e-book reader) was made available to the Latin-American audience in October 2009 but only in English, German and French. Last week it was revealed that authors and publishers can...
The 35th Federal Court, Rio de Janeiro, ruled recently in an action brought by Brazilian company LG Informática Ltda against LG Electrics Investment Ltd and its Brazilian subsidiary (both part of South Korea's LG Electronics...
As announced earlier by IP Tango (see its contents here), the Brazilian government took a serious step forward to apply trade barriers against American products in the amount of US$ 560 million and to further...
Ante el mejor arranque liguero de su historia, a las Chivas de Guadalajara, para muchos el mejor equipo de fútbol de México, los problemas le vienen desde fuera de la cancha y en relación con su marca.
An interim measure was published last Thursday in the Official Gazette which retaliates against the U.S. The interim measure only deals with intellectual property and is effective immediately and must be ratified by Congress to...
Writing in International Law Office ("The TRIPs Agreement and aspects of patent prosecution in Argentina"), Carlos O Mitelman and Daniel R Zuccherino (Obligado & Cia) review various aspects of Argentine patent practice in the wake...
The Colombian domain name registry is planning to introduce a change to its domain name registration rules, offering domain name registration under the top level domain of .co (at present it is only possible to...
On Wednesday, the Venezuelan government banned the use of electricity on billboards and advertisements as part of a contingency plan. The resolution also prohibits the lighting of the ads and billboards located in public roads,...
Ricardo Garcia, president of the Chilean Amcham, has noted that one of the reasons Chile stayed in the "red list" of intellectual property was for allegedly copying certain American laboratories medicines. The debate has just...
Maximiliano Marzetti (Abogado, proesor e investigador de Derecho y economía ubicado en Bolonia) acaba de publicar un interesante artículo titulado "Costo sin beneficioso - Análisis económico del Art. 5 bis recientemente incorporado al Regimen de...
The question of today’s blog comes after the president of Mexican Gastronomic Culture, Gloria Lopez Morales, said that Mexican cuisine should be declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. To this effect, last September a...
In answering the question, it appears so. Mexican Rural communities together with Greenpeace accused the Mexican Government (specifically the SAGARPA, PROFEPA and the Attorney General’s office) before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).The action...
En continuación al post publicado en IP Tango recientemente sobre Chile y la piratería, Rodrigo Ramirez (Abogado de Ramos Pazos, Montecinos & Díez) nos trae más información:Chile actualmente es miembro de la OCDE y su...
Legal deposit of musical works at the National Library has become mandatory in Brazil since law week through the publication of the Federal Law number 12,192 of 14 January 2010.From now on, Editors, Phonogram Producers...
For those of you who are not aware, the Institute of Intellectual Property in Argentina (INPI) publishes official statements regarding their administrative cases. Doing a little bit of research in trade mark, I read the...
Genetically modified organism (GMO) is indeed a topic which has brought hot debates at international level. Mexico is one of the Latin American countries that seem to have a settled regulation regarding Biosafety of...
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