The UN Committee that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, warned Colombia about the negative effects that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) can have.The UN advised (today 25th) that...
Si, así de incongruente es la noticia que nos llega desde Argentina.Resulta que el diputado kirchnerista por Tucumán, Gerónimo Vargas Aignasse, presentó el pasado 6 de mayo de 2010 un proyecto de ley para...
Thanks to Judit Rius Sanjuan, Attorney, Knowledge Ecology International for giving the IP tango blog access to the Declaration signed by civil Society organisations from Latin America, the European Union and the US which came...
By tomorrow we expect two mayor events. The European Commission officials and ministers of the Central American countries have been negotiating in Madrid the details of another trade agreement. This morning the ‘nacion’ newspaper announced...
A software study regarding the rate of illegal software showed a slight drop in some Latin America countries but also showed a rise in others. The study sponsored by Business Software Alliance (BSA), illustrates that...
The "Special 301 Report" issued by the Representative Office of U.S. Foreign Trade (USTR), has been published. This report provides a level of effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). For...
El estudio Mundial de Piratería elaborado por el grupo Businnes Software Alliance (BSA) reveló que durante el año 2009 la tasa de uso de software ilegal en México se ubicó en un 60%. Lo...
La piratería genera externalidades negativas para las empresas, los consumidores y el estado. En efecto, a los primeros les diluye la fuerza distintiva, el valor comercial y publicitario de sus marcas, mientras que a...
There are certain rules that permit parallel import but this depends on the importing nation’s treatment of exhaustion of IPRs. Colombia seems to prevent parallel imports of pharmaceutical unless they are listed in the ‘Compulsory...
It has been reported that yesterday Brazil and India have launched separate formal complaints at the WTO against the EU’s policy towards seizure of generic drugs manufactured in India. One may wonder: What has Brazil...
The Ninth Circuit Civil Court in Barranquilla (Colombia) has dismissed a lawsuit filed sixteen (16) years ago against Gabriel García Márquez and his deceased brother Eligio Garcia, by a person who inspired two of their...
There is always the statement that IPRs has an enormous value to the national economy. To this effect theWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of...
Last week, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) in Brazil launched two websites for the disclosure of expenditures and contracts relating to: first the 2014 World Cup and second, the Olympics in 2016. It...
As mentioned in this blog, last Monday part of the IP tango bloggers were working together in a seminar. It was nice indeed to put a face to my cyber colleagues and I was not...
SEMINARIO LA PROTECCIÓN DE LA PROPIEDAD INDUSTRIAL E INTELECTUAL EN LOS TRATADOS DE LIBRE COMERCIO EN AMERICA LATINA Universidad de Alicante, 3 de mayo 2010 Los ponentes y comunicantes del seminario ponen sus presentaciones a...
Tequila the oldest denomination of origin (DO) in Latin America has been successfully registered at the Patent and Trade Mark Office in Honduras. Honduras is a Member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the...
The telecommunication company has begun a ‘unification of trade marks for its telephone services, mobile and fixed, Internet and television’. From now on, all its services will be identified by the trade mark ‘Movistar’ accompanied...
In an earlier post ("Ecuador's compulsory licensing regime for medicines", here), IP Tango referred to Ecuador's Decree 118 -- the mechanism for granting compulsory licences in respect of patented medicines for both commercial and non-commercial...
"New legislation streamlines trademark regime", an article on International Law Office by Eugenio J Torres-Oyola (Ferraiuoli Torres Marchand & Rovira) summarises the trade mark regime operating in Puerto Rico following the passage into law of...
La Sala V del Tribunal Constitucional costarricense ha rechazado el recurso de inconstitucionalidad presentado por los diputados del Partido de Acción Ciudadano contra una serie de medidas legislativas destinadas a implementar el Tratado de Libre...
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