Handicraft: Brazilian GIs
From Brazil, we would like to report the application for a Geographical Indication (GI) for a handicraft. A GI is set to differentiate products due to their geographical origin; it could be environmental conditions i.e....
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Public consultation: Brazil opens up on GIs
November saw the Brazilian Intellectual Property Office opening a public consultation for the Draft on the ‘Normative Instruction’ that will establish the conditions for registration of Geographical Indications (GIs). This move aims to provide ‘transparency...
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
Free trade mark databases – the presence of Latin American countries
Have you heard of TMview? This is a common online trade mark information platform. The platform, a free of charge tool, makes trade mark data (registration and application) widely available and easily accessible to all...
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Traditional Knowledge and YOU!
I am not known as a selfish person, unless I am asked to share a chocolate cake; but looking to the amazing opportunity brought by WIPO I just wanted to keep it to myself! Huichol's...
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Universities, Patents and Intellectual Property: do they match?
The Director of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) reports that the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in Mexico City, is the Higher Education establishment that has filed the most patent applications during...
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Smart IP for Latin America: calling researchers
Con gran entusiasmo anuncio que el Instituto Max Planck para la Innovación y Competencia, ubicado en Munich Alemania esta en la busqueda de dos investigadores academicos en el area de Propiedad Intelectual en Latinoamerica!!! Let's...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Legalizing Graffiti: Chilean Chamber of Deputies says YES!
From Chile, we received the news that the Chamber of Deputies approved a project that regulates urban graphic art. Establishing a legal framework ‘that allows the creation of urban graphic art, as expressions of the...
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Latin America keeps speeding...
Continuing with yesterdays report and PPHs in Latin America, here comes another one…INAPI (IPO in Chile) and the USPTO (the United States Patent and Trademark Office) had signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation...
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Peru: User Satistaction Survey (USS) tool
Back in September 2018, the Peruvian National Institute for the Defence of Free Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) implemented the User Satisfaction Survey (USS) tool. This tool allows IPOs, which have a...
Agreements among Intellectual Property Offices: do they work?
Reading the news from the national IPO in Peru (INDECOPI) countless times this blog has reported on agreements between IPOs. Specifically, I usually report on the accelerated patent procedure - Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) [and...
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Intellectual Property and the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Emerging Themes and Challenges in Transboundary and Diaspora Contexts
As you may recall, we were organizing a session at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies which took place in China. This was held in early September, 2018 and I have now took the time...
Monday, 24 September 2018
Patentability of polymorphs: the interpretation of novelty and inventive step in Brazil
The title corresponds to a recent article published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press) available here. This piece came as a collaboration between myself and Fernando Seixas, a Pharmacist...
Saturday, 22 September 2018
Peru: A red card for Roja Directa
In Peru, the Copyright Commission, which is branch of the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI), announces that it has issued two precautionary measures Resolutions No. 444-2018...
Friday, 14 September 2018
Brazil: GI update
This week the Brazilian National Congress published the Legislative Decree No. 154, of 2018. This Decree approves the agreement signed between Brazil and Mexico for the mutual recognition of ‘cachaça’ (Brazil) and tequila (Mexico) as...
Monday, 27 August 2018
First edition of Brazilian Case Law from the Board of Appeal
On July 23, 2018 the Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) published online a report about decisions from the Board of Appeal which were issued in 2017. The decisions consider the guidelines issued between 2013...
Friday, 10 August 2018
Blockchain: a “disruptive” overview on various commercial sectors
This post was first published on Your LATAM FlagshIP blog and was written in collaboration with Alessio Balbo. “In 10 years 10 percent of the global GDP will be stored in blockchains” this data insight comes...
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Mexican GIs and the registry of foreign GIs and AOs
This post was first published on The IPKat blog: Recently, the Mexican Industrial Property Law was significantly amended and on 27 April 2018, the first batch of amendments to the Law entered into force. These amendments modified provisions...
Friday, 1 June 2018
Brazil and the Madrid Protocol: are they nearly there?
In June 2017, the Brazilian Presidency sent to the National Congress Mensagem nº 201, to allow Brazil to adhere to the Madrid Protocol. Therefore, building upon this, on May 10, 2018 the Brazilian National Institute...
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Brazil in the Highway again!
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Project signed by the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Phase I, was in force until May 10, 2018. The...
Monday, 21 May 2018
México – Reformas a la Ley de la Propiedad Industrial en materia de Marcas.
El pasado 18 de mayo se publicaron en el Diario Oficial de la Federación las Reformas y Adiciones a la Ley de la Propiedad Industrial, en materia de marcas. En primer lugar, resulta destacable...
