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Monday, 14 June 2021

¡Mañana inicia la Conferencia “El Nuevo Mundo de las Marcas: Latinoamérica”!

IPTango June 14, 2021 No comments:

Como se anunció aquí, el Centro de Lucha contra la Falsificación y Protección de Productos (Centro A-CAPP) de la Universidad Estatal de Michigan, está organizando la conferencia El Nuevo Mundo de las Marcas: Latinoamérica, la cual se llevará a cabo de forma virtual del 15 al 17 de Junio de 2021.

La conferencia abordará los problemas de protección de marcas en Latinoamérica. Las sesiones principales se realizarán en español, inglés y portugués.

Los temas de las sesiones son los siguientes:

Estrategias para marcas que quieren colaborar con autoridades locales en la lucha contra la falsificación.
Zonas de libre comercio y protección de marcas: mejores prácticas.
Comercio electrónico y falsificaciones: cooperación transnacional.
Intersecciones entre la falsificación y los vínculos del crimen organizado.
Decomiso de mercancías falsificadas por Aduanas: seguimiento, destrucción de mercancías.
Impacto del COVID en la protección de marcas y la aplicación de la PI.

El programa y la lista completa de ponentes están disponibles aquí.

La conferencia no tiene ningún costo, pero es necesario registrarse. De igual manera, el registro es necesario para acceder a las grabaciones de las sesiones (en caso de que no puedas unirte a las mismas o desees verlas de nuevo).

El Nuevo Mundo de las Marcas: Latinoamérica es una serie de conferencias virtuales gratuitas “sobre cuestiones de protección de marcas después de la pandemia, mirando hacia el futuro". La primera serie se llevó a cabo en 2020, abordando cuestiones de protección de marcas y la lucha contra la falsificación. La conferencia incluyó ponentes de la industria, academia, fuerzas del orden y gobierno.

Si no te has registrado, ¡hazlo aquí ahora!

Consulta aquí más información sobre la conferencia.

La imagen es cortesía del Centro A-CAPP.

Registration is now open! The A-CAPP Center’s “A Brand’s New World: Latin America” Virtual Conference

IPTango May 15, 2021 No comments:

As it was announced here, the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP Center), housed at Michigan State University, will hold the virtual conference A Brand’s New World: Latin America from 15 to 17 June 2021.

The online event will cover brand protection issues in Latin America. The main sessions will be held in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The sessions topic areas include e-commerce, free trade zones and customs best practices. The programme and the full list of speakers can be reviewed here.

The event is offered free of charge, but registration is required. Register now!

A Brand’s New World is a free virtual conference series “on brand protection issues post-pandemic, looking into the future”. The first series was held in 2020, addressing brand protection and anti-counterfeiting matters by speakers from industry, academia, law enforcement, and government.

More information is available here.

The image is courtesy of the A-CAPP Center.

Politics and IP. Regulation and IP. Just Two of the Topics Up for Discussion in Cartagena This October!

Patricia Covarrubia August 30, 2017 No comments:

Highlighted recently here on IP Tango, the International Trademark Association (INTA) will be hosting its Changing Landscape of Latin America conference in Cartagena, Colombia, on October 2–3.

Serving on the conference project team, Iris Quadrio (Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal, Argentina) and Urko Ochoa (Minino, Dominican Republic) contributed to the educational program and will be moderating a number of the sessions during the conference. The conference will be presented in English.

Moderated by Ms. Quadrio, a session titled “Politics and IP – Navigating This Unlikely Pair,” will feature Luiz Henrique O. do Amaral (Dannemann Siemsen, Brazil) and Prof. Dr. Gustavo Juan Schötz (National Director of Copyright, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Argentina). This session ties in closely with the theme of the conference, as it touches upon the changes that are reshaping the political landscape across Latin America, with Brazil transitioning towards presidential elections in 2018 after a particularly difficult period, and Argentina and Peru signaling important developments after their respective new administrations took office.

Speakers will delve into the changing political and economic landscape and its impact on issues such as the negotiation of agreements as they relate to intellectual property (IP) and trademarks, including the relaunch of Mercosur/EU trade talks. This discussion will also cover the role of the new trademark and IP authorities in Latin America, with their own list of priorities and reform projects, bringing participants up to date on the most recent changes and developments in the region.

Mr. Ochoa will lead a panel of experts comprising Melissa Pérez de Patterson (Procter & Gamble, Panama), Sergio Barragán (Pepsico, Mexico), and Rodrigo Velasco (Alessandri Abogados, Chile) in a session concerning the balance between IP rights and the increasing regulatory landscape. They will discuss a numbers of issues raised as a consequence of the new regulatory regimes which are expanding in the region, the corresponding restrictions for IP rights, and how IP owners and practitioners are facing the new challenges. Participants should expect to receive a clear regional overview of the matter, as well as the conflicts arising from the overlap between IP and regulatory provisions (such as packaging claims, use of characters, and other restrictions), and expectations for future developments.

Following the conference, on October 4, INTA will host a workshop, Free Trade Zones: Commerce vs. Counterfeits, during which brand owners, free trade zone authorities, government officials, and other stakeholders will explore the ongoing threat of counterfeiting in free trade zones.

Post written by INTA.

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* Listed as one of the "Best blogs on Intellectual and Industrial Property Law". The University of Alicante Intellectual Property & Information Technology Project (UAIPIT).

* One of the only two Latin American blog listed in the "Top 100 Intellectual Property Blogs". Feedspot, as of May 2021.

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* Listed as one of the "World's Best IP Blogs". BananaIP.com, December 2015.

* IPTango founder Professor Jeremy Phillips was listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

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* Listed as one of the "Communities of Blawgers". Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0. para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho, Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, 2010.