After the good news from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propriedad Industrial (INPI) on the IP filing boom (reported here) we now hear the news that INPI is managing to reduce the average time for...
The unfair competition (family of trademark law system) in Chile is regulated through the Unfair Competition Act number 20.169 published in 2007 amended by Small and Medium-Sized Entities Act number 20.416 (2010). This legal text...
Antes del receso legislativo ha quedado concluida, en el Congreso Nacional chileno, la tramitación del Proyecto de Ley destinado a modificar el decreto con fuerza de ley N° 3, de 2006, del Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Reconstrucción,...
Here's some good news for trade mark owners and their professional representatives: by TLT Notification No. 56, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has informed the world that the Government of the Republic of Colombia...
This week the Chilean ‘Cámara de Diputados’ (House of Representatives) approved the amendments made by the Senate in relation to the bill that reinforces the principle of specified and lawful purposes in processing of personal...
I presume that you have heard the expression ‘dress to impress’ – or at least you can remember your mum telling you this when you were going for an interview. This time, here goes an...
The iptango group has received yet another invitation [this time there is not dancing ‘dude’ asking me out to tango!]. While this blog does not promote any paid-for advertising, pop-ups and/or any other paraphernalia, we...
The Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propriedad Industrial (INPI) announced this week the granting of a geographical indication (GI) in the form of Indicação de Procedência ( Indication of Source/Origin) to ‘opalas preciosas’ (opal gem) and...
Con respecto a la entrada intitulada "Los aranceles periciales en Chile,sus nuevas tarifas y modalidades de pago", hemos recibido una gentil aclaración desde el Departamento de Comunicaciones del INAPI chileno con relación a la...
En plena polémica sobre la posible aprobación de SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) y las medidas tomadas por algunas páginas webs, nos enteramos a través de información proporcionada por el IMPI, que se ha entregado al...
Una información para los operadores del sistema de propiedad industrial ha sido publicada el lunes 16 de enero de 2012 en el Diario Oficial de Chile. Por resolución exenta Nº 664 de diciembre de 2011,...
Un nuevo episodio jurídico en la batalla del agave en México ha tenido lugar recientemente. En efecto, la Comisión Federal de Mejora Regulatoria (Cofemer) resolvió en su Dictamen Total (No final) que registrar la...
Now that the SLSA Conference 2012 has revealed what papers has been accepted for the forthcoming conference we reveal that the abstract submitted by FELIX ROZANSKI, an Argentinian lawyer, professor and business consultant and of...
There is so much I could say with the title...and perhaps some of you may think that as an IP academic/practitioner/ or just in the business of IP we see the sometimes lack of protection...
Brazil is not only implementing a speedy system for the application of trade marks made on the Internet, the so-called e-marcas. On January 10th, the Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propiedad Indusdrial (INPI) made official the...
¿Es autoejecutable el Convenio de París? La respuesta depende de cada Estado miembro. En Chile, en reciente fallo de casación en el fondo de la Corte Suprema, se ha dicho que sí, confirmando esta doctrina en su...
A partnership between the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) has produced and released this month the bulletin Panorama Patent Nanotechnology. The Bulleting publishes the patent...
The impact of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines in developing countries has a few times been cover in this blog as well as in many other blogs around our world of IP and of...
Seven national artisan communities have received Denomination of Origin (DO) by the Colombia Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC). The act took place on 13th December 2011 at the fair Expoartesanías. Colombia has already...
Los reportes sobre indicadores de propiedad intelectual y competitividad tienen a Chile y otros países de Iberomérica en buenas posiciones en medio de la crisis. De acuerdo al informe anual sobre indicadores mundiales de propiedad intelectual...
During the international convention EXPOTRUCHA that took effect December 2011, Sierra Exportadora (SIEX) an institution leader in promoting export production in the Andean region of Peru, announced that it has been helping five medium-sized enterprises...
The University of Buckingham in its Daily Mail writes the following: Dr Patricia Covarrubia [ok tangueros, you can call me Patricia] had the inspiration to start another blog-- this one focusing on indigenous rights and...
In different newspaper and from different countries I was reading similar information regarding the losses that the software industry suffered for piracy. In Peru for instance, I read that more than USD $ 29 million...
The Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce informed that even though the (10th) tenth edition of the Nice Classification shall start being applied on the 1st January 2012, Colombia will not be applying it. The...
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