El Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial de Chile (INAPI) otorgó el reconocimiento a la «Alfarería de Quinchamalí» como Denominación de Origen (D.O.). El signo tiene como titulares a la Unión de Artesanos de Quinchamalí tras...
IP Tango learns of some interesting developments in Costa Rica, relating to the status there of the "attorney-of-fact". According to the information received: Under the Costa Rican legislation, it is necessary to submit a power...
"ANCINE and BNDES to Finance digitization of movie theaters in Brazil" is the news from a bulletin issued by Brazilian law firm Di Blasi, Parente & Associates. The news goes like this: "Main movie distributors...
Carlos Agusto Conde-Gutierréz, lecturer at Universidad Externado de Colombia, contacted the blog to invite all our subscribers to read 'Revista la Propiedad Inmaterial', No 18. The magazine is published annually. It contains a wide diversity...
According to Marrakesh Notification No. 4: Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on...
Roberto Gómez Bolaños, creador de los famosos personajes como ‘El Chavo del 8’ y ‘El Chapulín Colorado”, falleció el pasado 28 de noviembre a los 85 años. La fama del comediante mexicano y de sus...
Argentina's National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has established a new registry for patent, trade marks, utility model, industrial model and design licences, as well as for technology transfer agreements. The registry will be...
For one reason or another, our society has become aware of the Scientology Church, which was founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard, a writer of science fiction at the time. Some of us, in...
Nissan Navara NP300 By Resolution No 2005-2014/TPI, INDECOPI -- which serves as an appellate administrative body -- rejected a coexistence agreement filed by Nissan Motor Co in connection with its application to register the...
In a ruling earlier this year the Chilean Industrial Property Court overturned the decision of Chile's National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) and allowed the registration of the mark 1818 for products in Class 25....
From Bucaramanga, Colombia comes an interesting case regarding the use of the trade mark ‘El Bambuco’ for the production of strings for musical instruments. strings on the guitar" href="http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=Az_6xddBwmBU1FUAFPNNBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTIyY29uMzcyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM3NTQzYzQxZjg4NGM5NWU5MThlNzBkM2E5ZGUwOWU0MgRncG9zAzUEaXQDYmluZw--?back=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.images.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dguitar%2Bstrings%26type%3Dspd_vit_14_21_ch%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26hsimp%3Dyhs-fullyhosted_003%26hspart%3Dironsource%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D5&w=737&h=459&imgurl=www.teachguitar.com%2Fimages%2Fstringnames.gif&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teachguitar.com%2Fcontent%2Ftmstringnames.htm&size=+5.4KB&name=...+diagram+showing+names+and+numbering+of+open+%3Cb%3Estrings%3C%2Fb%3E+on+the+%3Cb%3Eguitar%3C%2Fb%3E&p=guitar+strings&oid=7543c41f884c95e918e70d3a9de09e42&fr2=piv-web&fr=&tt=...+diagram+showing+names+and+numbering+of+open+%3Cb%3Estrings%3C%2Fb%3E+on+the+%3Cb%3Eguitar%3C%2Fb%3E&b=0&ni=21&no=5&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11kpochj0&sigb=14s795p8n&sigi=11av3m3nk&sigt=12j23fqh8&sign=12j23fqh8&.crumb=9YZJJ.5aCdS&type=spd_vit_14_21_ch&fr2=piv-web&hsimp=yhs-fullyhosted_003&hspart=ironsource" id="yui_3_5_1_1_1415627290543_524" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom:...
From Carlos Conde (lecturer in IP in the University Externado of Colombia) comes news of a seminar on IP in Bogotá organized by the Intellectual Property Department of the University Externado of Colombia. The...
Peru is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its National Anti-Biopiracy Commission. The said Commission is chaired by the Peruvian National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI). The Anty-Biopiracy Commission...
Back in October 2013 the Colombian company ‘Two of You’ applied for the registration of the mark ‘Toy Two of You’ in class 3 of the Nice Classification (i.e. nail varnish/polish, nail art stickers, perfumes,among...
Hace dos años tuvo lugar la designación del INAPI de Chile como ISA/IPEA en el marco del Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). El 22 de octubre mediante un acto público con presencia de autoridades políticas se...
On July this year the American well-known coffee brand Starbucks launched its first store in Colombia. But, before launching its store it applied for the registration of some of its trade marks at the Colombian...
The Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propiedade Industrial (INPI) is now facilitating access to online search system of trade marks, patents, industrial designs, and computer programs. It all started last Tuesday, October 14. There is a...
At the end of September Natalia Franco Onofre posted the good news on IP Tango that trade mark registration in Colombia was now taking place more swiftly, with registration in six months becoming a...
El Mercosur IPR SME Helpdesk ofrece de forma gratuita una primera línea de asistencia en temas relacionados con Propiedad Industrial e Intelectual y derechos de PI con el objetivo de facilitar la expansión de...
IP Tango learns that, following the adoption of a comprehensive Criminal Code, Ecuador has decriminalised both counterfeiting and the infringement of intellectual property rights. This new law is in conflict with the TRIPS Agreement,...
The Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) received an application to register the word mark ‘Lavomatic’ in Class 9 of the Nice Classification i.e. digital recording media, cash registers, apparatus and instruments for conducting,...
The Venezuelan Intellectual Property Office (SAPI) informs in its webpage the ‘good’ news that it has officially computerized the trade mark search for phonetic and graphic signs. I was excited to read the title and...
The Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) as the authority for Industrial Property used to take approx. 63 months (more than 5 years) to grant a patent. Due to this delay, the office...
Millward Brown ha hecho público su informe BRANDZ – 2014 Top Latin American Brands, el cual nuevamente es encabezado por la marca mexicana de cerveza ‘Corona’, la cual tiene un valor de 8.025 millones de...
The Court of Appeal of Rio Grande do Sul (TJ-RS) has decided on Sept 24th that the multinational Monsanto has the right to charge royalties regarding the transgenic soy-bean from Brazilian farmers. The decision, rendered...
Al año se presentan en Chile 30.000 solicitudes de registro de marca nueva, 4.000 de las cuales reciben una demanda de oposición. En igual período se ingresan 150 demandas de nulidad ante el INAPI....
At the end of August 2014, Bolivia achieved the recognition of ‘Quinoa Real’ (Quinoa Royal) as Denomination of Origin (DO) in the Andean Community (CAN). This means that the DO is also recognized by the...
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