Registration of IP licences: good news from Argentina

Registration of IP licences: good news from Argentina

Jeremy   November 27, 2014   No comments:

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...

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Scientology Church, ‘Prosperity’ and the Washington Convention: what do they have in common?

Scientology Church, ‘Prosperity’ and the Washington Convention: what do they have in common?

Patricia Covarrubia   November 17, 2014   No comments:

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...

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Peru snubs TM coexistence agreement, rejects NP300 registration

Peru snubs TM coexistence agreement, rejects NP300 registration

Jeremy   November 14, 2014   No comments:

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...

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Registering numerals in Chile: there's safety in numbers ...

Registering numerals in Chile: there's safety in numbers ...

Jeremy   November 13, 2014   2 comments:

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....

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Leasing your business: trade mark management

Leasing your business: trade mark management

Patricia Covarrubia   November 10, 2014   No comments:

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:...

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Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship: an event

Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship: an event

Jeremy   November 07, 2014   No comments:

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...

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Biopiracy: a decade to celabrate

Biopiracy: a decade to celabrate

Patricia Covarrubia   November 03, 2014   No comments:

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...

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