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...
