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Tuesday, 16 September 2025

El Índice Mundial de Innovación de 2025: Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo September 16, 2025 No comments:

Hoy se anunció la publicación de la 18.ª edición del Índice Mundial de Innovación (GII, por sus siglas en inglés). Publicado desde 2007, el GII ha sido una fuente útil de análisis para medir la innovación. Consulta aquí mis reportes sobre ediciones anteriores del GII.

El GII de 2025 fue publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), en colaboración con el Instituto Portulans.

El GII de 2025 contiene la más reciente clasificación mundial de innovación de más de 130 economías, basándose en 78 indicadores. El tema del informe de este año es “La innovación en la encrucijada”.

El Explorador de ecosistemas y datos de innovación del GII de 2025 (en inglés) muestra las reseñas sobre el desempeño de cada economía con respecto a todos los indicadores, destacando sus puntos fuertes y áreas de mejora en materia de innovación. Este año se agregó un nuevo filtro que permite revisar el desempeño de la innovación en las siguientes regiones: África, ASEAN, Unión Europea, Latinoamérica y los PMA.

11th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP & Frontier Technologies: Infrastructure for Rights Holders and Innovation

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo April 21, 2025 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Eleventh Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) on 23 and 24 April 2025.

The theme of the eleventh session is “Infrastructure for Rights Holders and Innovation”. The session aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss, inter alia, the challenges that AI poses for copyright, including rights management, attribution and compensation.

The agenda comprises the following topics:

Copyright infrastructure.
Infrastructure for training data.
Infrastructure for outputs.
The EU AI Act and Code of Practice.

The list of speakers is available here. The event will be held in a hybrid format. Registration is still open for a wider audience (virtual). If you haven’t registered, the live webcast of the session will be available here.

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

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10th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP & Frontier Technologies, AI Output: To Protect, or Not to Protect – that is the IP Question

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo November 03, 2024 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Tenth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) on 5 and 6 November 2024.

The theme of the tenth session is “AI Output: To Protect, or Not to Protect—That is the IP Question.” The session aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss, inter alia, the relationship between AI-generated content and IP, evaluate current practices, and propose practical solutions.

The agenda comprises the following topics:

From patentability dilemmas to copyright conundrums: Economic perspective.
Current copyright landscape: Where does AI fit in?
Pay per use? AI outputs, training data and the infringement question.
Deepfakes, cheap fakes, voice jacking and other AI manipulations.
Technical cooperation for the benefit of all.
Connecting the dots: Industry solutions to identify AI outputs.

The list of speakers is available here. The event will be held in a hybrid format. Registration was open for WIPO members & Observers (onsite) and a wider audience (virtual). If you haven’t registered, the live webcast of the session will be available here.

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

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El Índice Mundial de Innovación de 2024: Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo September 27, 2024 No comments:

Ayer se anunció la publicación de la 17ª edición del Índice Mundial de Innovación (GII, por sus siglas en inglés). Publicado desde 2007, el GII ha sido una fuente útil de análisis para medir la innovación. Consulta aquí mis reportes sobre ediciones anteriores del GII.

El GII de 2024 fue publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), en colaboración con el Instituto Portulans.

El GII de 2024 contiene la más reciente clasificación mundial de innovación de más de 130 economías, basándose en 78 indicadores. El tema del informe de este año es “Descubriendo la promesa del emprendimiento social”.

El nuevo Explorador de ecosistemas y datos de innovación del GII de 2024 (en inglés) muestra las reseñas sobre el desempeño de cada economía con respecto a todos los indicadores, destacando sus puntos fuertes y débiles en materia de innovación.

9th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP & Frontier Technologies: Training the Machines – Bytes, Rights and the Copyright Conundrum

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo March 10, 2024 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Ninth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) on 13 and 14 March 2024.

The theme of the ninth session is “Training the Machines—Bytes, Rights and the Copyright Conundrum”, which aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss the multifaceted relationship between IP and training data. The event will foster a holistic understanding of the impact of training data on the IP landscape by evaluating current practices, proposing practical solutions, and envisioning future direction.

The agenda comprises the following topics:

The current IP state of play: Training data containing copyright-protected works.
Does litigation really solve everything? A litigation tracker.
Can regulation keep up? Navigating the evolving regulatory landscape.
Can contractual frameworks mitigate the IP risk until regulation catches up?
Shaping a possible way forward: New approaches for the new AI age.
Presentation: Generative AI, training data and innovation – how large language models are acceleration scientific break throughs.

The list of speakers is available here. The event will be held in a hybrid format. Registration was open for WIPO members & Observers (onsite) and a wider audience (virtual). If you haven’t registered, the live webcast of the session will be available here.

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

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8th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP & Frontier Technologies: Generative AI and IP

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo September 18, 2023 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) on 20 and 21 September 2023.

The theme of the eighth session is “Generative AI and IP”, aiming to bring together stakeholders to discuss the challenges generative AI may pose to the IP system and inter alia helping to establish best practices for the protection of creative works in the digital age.

The agenda comprises the following topics:

The Rapid Rise of Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
What is Generative AI and what differentiates it from other AI models?
Regulation of Generative AI: Do you feel the need… the need for speed? (Emerging Trends in Generative AI)
Generative AI – A Jack of Many Trades? (Generative AI: Use Cases)
A Mosaic of IP Issues: Painting the Full Picture of Generative AI and IP
Access to training data: Exploring Text and Data Mining (TDM) Exceptions, Fair Use, and Moral Rights
Authorship and Ownership of AI-generated Works: IP is all around
The Impact of Generative AI on the Creative Industries – a Tool for Human Creativity or Creative Destruction?
IP Strategies for Innovators and Creators in the Age of Generative AI
Generative AI for IP Administration: Applications and Pitfalls
How are Member States and IP Offices updating their guidelines to better accommodate IP issues related to Generative AI?
How are IP Offices dealing with applications written by ChatGPT?
Should IP laws be updated to reflect the use of Generative AI?
How can governments ensure that the use of Generative AI does not stifle innovation or competition in creative industries?

The list of speakers is available here. The event will be held in a hybrid format. Registration was open for WIPO members & Observers (onsite) and a wider audience (virtual). If you haven’t registered, the live webcast of the session will be available here.

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

7th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP & Frontier Technologies: IP and the Metaverse

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo March 28, 2023 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Seventh Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) on 29 and 30 March 2023.

The theme of the seventh session is “IP and the Metaverse”, aiming to bring together stakeholders to discuss the challenges the metaverse may pose to the IP system. The broad spectrum of frontier technologies enabling the metaverse, like AI, blockchain and the NFTs, AR and VR technologies, the Internet of Things and data processing, will be addressed.

The agenda comprises the following topics:

“All information looks like noise until you break the code” – Decoding the Metaverse.
Blueprints, plans and IP stories from the architects building the Metaverse.
Economics of the Metaverse.
Living, working and playing in the Metaverse: IP stories from the Metaverse.
A multiverse of IP issues.
The Future of IP in the digital economy and a fully virtual world.
DAOs, NFTs, smart contracts and other fantastic beasts and IP.
Playing games and knowing the IP score: content and more in the Metaverse.
Jurisdiction and enforcing IP rights in the Metaverse.
Realizing the potential of the Metaverse.
Sharing session (Member States and IP Offices) – Open floor interventions and discussion: exchange of current practices between IP Offices on work around the Metaverse.
Open floor interventions (all participants).

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

El Índice Mundial de Innovación de 2022: Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo September 29, 2022 No comments:

Hoy se anunció la publicación de la 15ª edición del Índice Mundial de Innovación (GII, por sus siglas en inglés). Publicado desde 2007, el GII ha sido una fuente útil de análisis para medir la innovación. Consulta mis reportes sobre el GII 2021 aquí y el GII 2020 aquí.

El GII de 2022 fue publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), en colaboración con el Instituto Portulans y sus asociados corporativos.

El GII de 2022 contiene la más reciente clasificación mundial de innovación de 132 economías, basándose en 81 indicadores. El tema del informe de este año es “¿Cuál es el futuro del crecimiento impulsado por la innovación?”.

El GII de 2022 también destaca los efectos positivos de dos nuevas oleadas de innovación:

Oleada derivada de la era digital, basada en la supercomputación, la inteligencia artificial y la automatización. Efecto: tener una amplia incidencia en la productividad de todos los sectores y en todos los ámbitos de investigación científica.
Oleada de innovación en ciencia profunda, basada en avances en la biotecnología, la nanotecnología, el desarrollo de nuevos materiales y otras ciencias. Efecto: cambiar por completo las innovaciones en la salud, la alimentación, el medio ambiente y la movilidad (cuatro campos de importancia clave para la sociedad).

Algunas de las conclusiones del GII señaladas en el comunicado de prensa son las siguientes:

6th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP & Frontier Technologies: AI Inventions

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo August 25, 2022 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Sixth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) from 21 to 22 September 2022.

The theme of the sixth session is “AI Inventions”, aiming to share information and build awareness around patent examination practices, tools, and guidelines for AI inventions. As such, it will be addressed:

What are the market trends, and how do these translate in terms of patent applications?
How autonomous is AI?
What role does it play as part of the inventive process or as an invention?
What questions does this raise for the IP system?
How are IP Offices supporting AI inventors?

The provisional agenda is available here. The event will be held in a hybrid format. Registration is free and now open for WIPO members & Observers (onsite) and a wider audience (virtual)!

If you would like to participate in the Sixth Session by making a statement or a presentation, send an email to frontier.tech@wipo.int before 18 September 2022. Such participation is open to the Member States, IP Offices, and all participants (open floor intervention).

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

Image by Tung Nguyen from Pixabay.

[Guest Post] Mercado Libre’s second Transparency Report

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo January 10, 2022 No comments:

IPTango is pleased to publish a guest post by Francisco Burguete, discussing the second Transparency Report published by Mercado Libre.

Mercado Libre (MELI) published its second Transparency Report, which covers data from January to June 2021 and includes a new section on user information requests (see here IPTango post on MELI’s first Transparency Report).

MELI emphasized that in the second report, “the scope of information available to users, authorities and civil society organizations has been expanded[, and for] the first time, information requests from authorities that are processed in compliance with the law are shared”.

Now, the Transparency Report comprises four main sections: user information requests (section one), product security and quality (section two), protection of IP rights (section three), and privacy matters (section four).

Product security and quality (Section 02)

This section contains information about removed content because of violations of MELI’s Terms and Conditions (T&C), such as offering prohibited items on the platform (e.g., items violating IP rights):

267,461,670 listings were placed on MELI’s websites as of 30 June 2021 (compared to 331,607,978 listings in the first report).
8,815,828 listings were detected and moderated by MELI due to violation of its Listing and Prohibited Items Policies (compared to 18,570,436 in the previous reporting period).
53,173 listings were reported by users (compared to 112,424 in the previous report).
Top jurisdictions concerning detected listings regarding the violation of MELI’s Listing and Prohibited Items Policies:

Jurisdictions	Detected Listings (1^st report, as of 31 December 2020)	Detected Listings (2^nd report, as of 30 June 2021)
Brazil	13,283,854	4,013,453
Mexico	2,282,461	2,311,539
Colombia	1,371,060	1,240,494
Argentina	792,168	253,219
Chile	609,413	581,119
Uruguay	98,915	150,475
Peru	96,569	174,077
Rest of Latin America	35,996	91,452

Only 4.5% of detected listings were reactivated (compared to 3.12% of reactivated ads).

It should be noted that the second report contains the top main content infringing categories broken down per country. Meanwhile, the categories were classified only per product in the first report.

Protection of IP rights (Section 03)

In this section, MELI presents its Brand Protection Program (BPP), which “enable IPR holders to report infringing listings [via a Notice & Take Down -N&TD- procedure]”. MELI emphasized that they have developed “self-mapping tools, based on artificial intelligence, to “learn” from the notices received and proactively remove listings” that infringe IPRs.

969,413 N&TDs were submitted (compared to 2,107,264 in the previous reporting period).
56,432 counter-notices were submitted (compared to 104,661 in the first report).
The number of Proactive Detections and Confirmed Complaints:

Date	Proactive Detections	Confirmed Complaints
2021-1	1,322,070	159,409
2021-2	907,771	170,128
2021-3	1,558,342	206,285
2021-4	733,493	132,261
2021-5	760,860	117,082
2021-6	668,668	125,850

The English version of the second Transparency Report can be reviewed here. The Spanish version is available here.

In the past, IPTango interviewed Juan Cichero (Head of Brand Protection at MELI), who conversed about BPP, the N&TD procedure, and more. Read here the interview.

Credit: Image by athree23 from Pixabay.

Happy New Year! / ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo December 31, 2021 No comments:

This is the last article of the year, and we want to thank our readers, followers, and authors of all guest posts!

We are thrilled and grateful that to this day, the blog has received over 1,831,300 page views since its creation!

Happy New Year to all!

Este es el último artículo del año, ¡y queremos agradecer a nuestros lectores, seguidores y autores de todas las publicaciones invitadas!

¡Estamos encantados y agradecidos de que, hasta el día de hoy, el blog haya recibido más de 1,831,300 visitas desde su creación!

¡Feliz Año Nuevo a todos!

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El Índice Mundial de Innovación de 2021: Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo September 20, 2021 No comments:

Hoy se anunció la publicación de la 14ª edición del Índice Mundial de Innovación (GII, por sus siglas en inglés). Publicado desde 2007, el GII ha sido una fuente útil de análisis para medir la innovación.

El GII de 2021 fue publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), en colaboración con el Instituto Portulans y sus asociados corporativos.

El GII de 2021 contiene la más reciente clasificación mundial de innovación de 132 economías, basándose en 81 indicadores. El tema del informe de este año es el Seguimiento de la innovación durante la crisis de la COVID-19.

Registration is now open for the 4th Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP and Frontier Technologies!

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo July 04, 2021 No comments:

As announced here, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will hold the Fourth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies (formerly WIPO Conversation on IP and AI) from 22 to 23 September 2021.

The theme of the fourth session is “Data – beyond AI in a fully interconnected world”. Registration is now open here!

The agenda and the information about the format (e.g., only virtual meeting) will be provided afterwards. However, it has been already confirmed that the session will be available online, including a “video on demand recording [that] will also be published in due course”.

Likewise, you can respond to the Frontier Technologies and Data Questionnaire to share insights into “the challenges and opportunities you see, your stories and your views”. The responses will help to shape the fourth session.

Furthermore, the IP and Frontiers Technologies web page was revamped in light of preparing the fourth session of the WIPO Conversation. Check it out!

If you have a craving for more WIPO on IP and AI, do not forget to review here a list of sources at the bottom of the article.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

Mercado Libre published its first Transparency Report

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo June 24, 2021 No comments:

On 19 May 2021, Mercado Libre (MELI) published its first Transparency Report. MELI stated that the report’s purpose is “to make our policies and actions transparent to safeguard the security and privacy of over 74 million users in our entire regional ecosystem”.

The Transparency Report consists of three main sections: product security and quality, protection of IP rights, and privacy matters. Read below some highlights of the report!

Section: Product security and quality

This section contains stats about removed content due to violations of MELI’s Terms and Conditions (T&C), which inter alia, prohibit certain items are sold on the platform (e.g., medicines, counterfeit items and other goods violating IP rights):

331,607,978 listings were placed on the 18 MELI's websites as of 31 December 2020.
18,570,436 listings were detected and moderated by MELI due to violation of its Listing and Prohibited Items Policies.
112,424 listings were reported by users.
65,180 listings were removed due to COVID-19 related matters.
Top 10 product categories regarding removed listings due to violation of MELI’s Listing and Prohibited Items Policies:

Product Category	Removed Listings
Courses	7,036,318
Medicine, health and/or beauty substances and products	1,386,243
E-books	1,337,862
Digital accounts & contents	1,278,420
Adult products	844,061
Personal databases	611,122
Decoders, antennas & signals	433,865
Personal documents	230,757
Tobacco & alike	215,817
Products & financial services	126,428

Top jurisdictions concerning detected listings due to violation of MELI’s Listing and Prohibited Items Policies:

Jurisdictions	Detected Listings
Brazil	13,283,854
Mexico	2,282,461
Colombia	1,371,060
Argentina	792,168
Chile	609,413
Uruguay	98,915
Peru	96,569
Rest of Latin America	35,996

In the report is highlighted that MELI uses machine learning technologies to detect infringing listings. In this sense, only 3.12% of the detected listings went back to the platform (reactivated ads).

Section: Protection of IP rights

This section contains stats regarding MELI’s Brand Protection Program (BPP), which “enable IPR holders to report infringing listings [via a Notice & Take Down -N&TD- procedure] in any of the 18 countries where Mercado Libre operates”.

2,107,264 N&TDs were submitted.
104,661 counter-notices were submitted.
The number of confirmed and not confirmed N&TDs:

Date	Confirmed N&TD	Not confirmed N&TD
2020-7	580,164	57,589
2020-8	396,225	46,558
2020-9	285,462	48,326
2020-10	333,046	26,757
2020-11	198,232	24,184
2020-12	92,568	23,035

Review the full Transparency Report here in English and here in Spanish.

Read here the interview IPTango held with Juan Cichero (Head of Brand Protection at MELI). Juan conversed about BPP, including the machine learning technologies used to detect infringing listings and the N&TD procedure.

Credit: Image is courtesy of Mercado Libre.