January 2012

After the good news from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propriedad Industrial ( INPI ) on the IP filing boom (reported here ) we now he...

The unfair competition (family of trademark law system) in Chile is regulated through the Unfair Competition Act number 20.169 published in...

Antes del receso legislativo ha quedado concluida, en el Congreso Nacional chileno, la tramitación  del Proyecto de Ley destinado a modifica...

Here's some good news for trade mark owners and their professional representatives: by TLT Notification No. 56, the World Intellectual ...

This week the Chilean ‘Cámara de Diputados’ (House of Representatives) approved the amendments made by the Senate in relation to the bill th...

I presume that you have heard the expression ‘dress to impress’ – or at least you can remember your mum telling you this when you were going...

The iptango group has received yet another invitation [this time there is not dancing ‘dude’ asking me out to tango!] . While this blog does...

The Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propriedad Industrial (I NPI ) announced this week the granting of a geographical indication (GI) in th...

Con respecto a la entrada intitulada "Los aranceles periciales en Chile,sus nuevas tarifas y modalidades de pago", hemos recibido ...

En plena polémica sobre la posible aprobación de SOPA   (Stop Online Piracy Act) y las medidas tomadas por algunas páginas webs , nos entera...

Una información para los operadores del sistema de propiedad industrial ha sido publicada el lunes 16 de enero de 2012 en el Diario Oficial ...

Un nuevo episodio jurídico en la batalla del agave en México ha tenido lugar recientemente. En efecto, la Comisión Federal de Mejora Regula...

Now that the SLSA Conference 2012 has revealed what papers has been accepted for the forthcoming conference we reveal that the abstract sub...

There is so much I could say with the title...and perhaps some of you may think that as an IP academic/practitioner/ or just in the business...

Brazil is not only implementing a speedy system for the application of trade marks made on the Internet, the so-called e-marcas. On January ...

¿Es autoejecutable el Convenio de París? La respuesta depende de  cada Estado miembro. En Chile,  en reciente fallo de casación en el fondo ...

A partnership between the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property ( INPI ) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (...

The impact of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines in developing countries has a few times been cover in this blog as well as in ma...

Seven national artisan communities have received Denomination of Origin (DO) by the Colombia Superintendence of Industry and Commerce ( SIC ...

Los reportes sobre indicadores de propiedad intelectual y competitividad tienen a Chile y otros países de Iberomérica en buenas posiciones e...

During the international convention EXPOTRUCHA that took effect December 2011, Sierra Exportadora ( SIEX ) an institution leader in promoti...

The University of Buckingham in its Daily Mail writes the following: Dr Patricia Covarrubia [ok tangueros, you can call me Patricia] had the...

In different newspaper and from different countries I was reading similar information regarding the losses that the software industry suffer...

The Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce informed that even though the (10th) tenth edition of the Nice Classification shall ...