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Monday, 27 June 2022

Paraguay: news with no news

Patricia Covarrubia June 27, 2022 No comments:

From the Paraguayan IPO I read the news about the Mercosur – Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

Last week, the 6th round of negotiations seemed to end with some consensus on the matter of intellectual property, covering trade marks, patents, design, traditional knowledge and geographical indications. The meeting took place online and was led by the coordinator of the IP section Juan Esteban Aguirre, who is the Director of the International relations at DINAPI (Dirección Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual – that is, Paraguay national IP).

Previous round covered: access to the goods market, rules of origin, commercial defense, technical barriers to trade, investment, electronic commerce, services, telecommunications, government procurement and institutional aspects, trade in services, public purchases, and electronic commerce. The Foreign Trade Information System (SICE) publishes all documents relating to the negotiations, but it has not been updated (last doc is the 4th table of negotiation - April 2022).

MERCOSUR is a trade bloc in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay – Venezuela was suspended in 2017) and represents the 5th world economy. The largest exports from MERCOSUR in 2022 is to China (USD$ 31,532 M); same with imports.

In 2019, MERCOSUR concluded FTA with the EU (more info here). An FTA cut hassle involved in exporting and importing goods and services, could it be by the reduction or removal of custom duties and or simplifying custom procedures.

Some FACTS on IP

All FIVE countries are members of the WTO and consequently have incorporated the TRIPS agreement into their national legislation – minimum standard of IP.

Madrid System (trade mark international register): Brazil and Singapore are members
Hague System (design international register): Singapore is a contracting party
Patent Cooperation Treaty (patent international register): Brazil and Singapore are members

Good to know – Brazil

The Brazilian IPO may challenge clauses establishing that improvements developed by the licensor may only be used by the Brazilian company upon the execution of a new agreement. Law No. 4,131/1962 regulates foreign capital in Brazil .

INPI assessment and approval of Technology Transfer and IP licensing agreement are mandatory for the purposes of:

authorizing remittance of royalties to foreign licensor, grantor of IPRs recognized in Brazil;
trigger tax deductibility by the Brazilian party of amounts paid in connection with IP license, acquisition; and
entitle the Brazilian party to enforce licensed, granted IP rights.

Other IP facts in Brazil:

INPI neither annotate agreements nor issue certificate of registration for the license of non-patented proprietary technological knowledge.
INPI does not accept ‘technology’ licenses and establishes that the technology is permanently transferred to the Brazilian recipient.
Software agreement registration is not required unless it involves the transfer of source code and know-how.

For more information in Latin America, have a look at the vast information hold at Latin America IP SMEs Helpdesk here.

Source DINAPI.

Paraguay’s accession to the Nice and Locarno Agreements

IPTango June 13, 2021 No comments:

On 31 May 2021, Paraguay deposited its instrument of accession to the Nice and Locarno Agreements, administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The Treaties establish an international classification for the registration of trademarks (Nice Agreement) and industrial designs (Locarno Agreement).

Both Treaties will enter into force in Paraguay on 31 August 2021.

Review here more information about the international classifications.

Watch here a video featuring WIPO Director General Daren Tang welcoming Paraguay’s accession to the Agreements.

Source: WIPO website.

Paraguay – Expide el primer certificado de registro de una Denominación de Origen

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb) March 29, 2021 No comments:

Recientemente la Dirección Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual (DINAPI) , expidió el primer certificado de registro para una denominación de origen al Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne.

El Champagne es la primera solicitud que concluye todo el proceso de reconocimiento preliminar y registro establecido en la Ley 4923/2013 reglamentada en el año 2019 a través del Decreto del P.E. N° 1286

Paraguay cuenta con una legislación específica en la materia desde el año 2013, para presentación de solicitudes de reconocimiento preliminar y posterior registro de indicaciones geográficas y denominaciones de origen y, desde su reglamentación en el mes de febrero del año 2019, la DINAPI ha impulsado campañas de promoción y difusión de esta herramienta de PI.

Actualmente, el Comité de Champagne reúne a alrededor de 16000 vignerons (viticultores) y 320 maisons (casas) de la región de Champagne – Francia.

Paraguay se suma así a la lista de 122 países, incluyendo la mayoría de los países de América Latina, China, India, etc., que ya protegen el nombre Champagne, una de las denominaciones más notorias y antiguas del mundo.

Mas información aquí y aquí.

'it's a new day it's a new life' and I am feeling PROSUR

Patricia Covarrubia January 10, 2017 No comments:

December 2016 saw the last weeks of the year with the eagerness of some Latin American countries to start cooperating more. Therefore, future plans were discussed by PROSUR Directorship Committee.

Back in 2009, WIPO received a letter signed by nine Latin American countries which have agreed on a regional project “to develop a common platform that allows the integration, exchange of information and system compatibility for the nine participating countries.” – known as PROSUR due to involve South (SUR) American countries.

Besides the plans for the new year ahead, the extension of funding was also covered (by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)). The Latin American countries which are part of the PROSUR regional cooperation system of IP are: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname and Uruguay, WIPO also participated. From Central America, Costa Rica also joined the group and there are talks for expansion of PROSUR. That said, PROSUR members “announced the entry of the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua from 2017.” [will this also see the change of the name to PROSURCENTRAL?]

The patent national offices of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had already started a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program.

Source INPI.

Paraguay signs up for Marrakesh Treaty

Jeremy January 27, 2015 No comments:

The World Intellectual Property Organization has just issued a media release, Marrakesh Notification No. 6: Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled: Ratification by the Republic of Paraguay.

The event which this release records is the deposit by the Government of the Republic of Paraguay of its instrument of ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. The date of entry into force of this Treaty remains subject to it securing the requisite number of 20 accessions or ratifications. At present there are just six countries which have taken this step: three (Uruguay, El Salvador and Paraguay) are from Latin America.

You can check additions to the list on the Treaty's Notifications page here.

La batalla por la Propiedad Industrial de las arpas paraguayas

Rodrigo Ramirez Herrera @ramahr September 15, 2014 No comments:

En el años 2006 el comerciante de arpas, Salomón Sanabria, registró diseños y ornamentos utilizados en la construcción de arpas paraguayas, lo que llevó a la Fiscalía a imputar a artesanos de Asunción y Luque, por la supuesta falsificación de sus modelos.

A raíz de este conflicto se requisaron instrumentos en varios locales de ventas y sus propietarios se vieron obligados a dejar de comercializar los populares modelos.

Los luthiers paraguayos rechazaron los argumentos del denunciante y aseguran que sus diseños son "artesanales" y no "modelos industriales" y datan de varias décadas pues proceden de la herencia del acervo familiar de los Sanabria, vale decir, son de dominio público.

El caso se inició en julio de 2006, cuando la Dirección de la Propiedad Industrial otorgó al comerciante de arpas el registro de dibujo industrial Nº 1754 (ornamentación para instrumento musical). En diciembre de 2006, Sanabria denunció la supuesta falsificación de su diseño, declarando a la Fiscalía que él mismo realizó los diseños en 2001. Ante este hecho, la Central de Artesanos de Luque reclamó al Instituto Paraguayo de Artesanía (IPA) la revocación del registro. En abril de 2007, la Fiscalía imputó a artesanos en base a la denuncia de Sanabria y en junio de 2007 Propiedad Industrial revocó el registro y se sobreseyó a los imputados, aunque en diciembre de 2013 se revocó la resolución que dejaba sin efecto el original registro de Sanabria.

A partir de ese pronunciamiento, en enero de 2014 Salomón Sanabria volvió a denunciar a los artesanos alegando falsificación de su "modelo industrial" cuyo registro fue otorgado en diciembre de 2013. En base a dicho registro en abril pasado la Fiscalía realizó allanamientos en los locales de varios artesanos imputados.

Fuente: Última hora / Noticias de Paraguay /