The Sixty-Third series of meeting of the Assemblies of the
member states is taken place at WIPO headquarters (Geneva, 14th-22nd
July). While the event is taken place in a hybrid format, the Peruvian delegates
are present. Specifically, the executive president of the Peruvian Intellectual
Property Office (Indecopi), noted face-to-face to the counterparts, ‘the initiatives and
advances of Peru in the field of intellectual property’. [more info here]
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| The Geneva Walk - walking towards WIPO, June 2016 |
In particular, it was disclosed that Peru will deposit its
instruments of accession to five treaties, including the Geneva Act of the
Lisbon Agreement, which shows ‘commitment as a country’. There is not other
indication of what other Treaties or Agreements those would be, but if we are
to guess, one maybe the Madrid System, which now covers 128 countries. From Latin America:
- Brazil (Madrid Protocol, October 2019;
- Chile
(Madrid Protocol, 2022);
- Colombia (Madrid Protocol, August, 2012);
- Cuba (Madrid Agreement, December,
1989; Madrid Protocol, December 1995);
- Mexico (Madrid Protocol, (Madrid
Protocol, February 2013).
This is long overdue, Colombia, the first Latin America country to become a party, did it back in 2012 as a compromise - noted in the FTA with the EU (published in this blog
here), which
was signed same time (June 2012)
by both,
Peru and Colombia (later on signed by Ecuador).
Regarding Geographical Indications (GI), the three countries,
that is Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, amended and or adopted GI legislation in a
manner similar to the EU. The EU deposited its instrument of accession
to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on 26 November 2019, and in force
since February 2020.
Any other guess? Peru is not yet pat of the Hague Agreement,
Nice agreement, Locarno Agreement, Strasbourg Agreement, Vienna Agreement, Nairobi
Treaty, Patent Law Treaty and Washington Treaty – which of these, do you think
they are going to go for?
