March 2015

Proyecto de Ley de Propiedad Industrial de Chile pasa a la Comisión de Hacienda

El proyecto que modifica las leyes Nº 19.039, sobre propiedad industrial y Nº 20.254, que creó el Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial...

Recent News from the Brazilian Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI)

In the past two weeks the Brazilian Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI) has been very active with updates relevant to patent examinati...

Comunidad Andina: Interpretación Prejudicial Facultativa

El Doctor Luis José Diez Canseco,   actual presidente del Tribunal de Justicia de la Comunidad Andina, recientemente visitó Colombia con el ...

10 años del Registro de Marcas Notorias y Famosas en México

En el año 2005 se realizó una importante reforma en materia de marcas en México, la cual fue impulsada por un grupo de empresas mexicanas po...

How to Create Animated Visual Effects Using jQuery

You can create animated visual effects by setting the CSS visibility property, i.e. making elements appearing and disappearing. Along with m...

Chile: increasing fees

Since last Friday 6th March 2015, the Chilean National Industrial Property Institute (INAPI) has a new tariff in place. Such tariff relates ...

Argentina: patent procedures

The Argentinian Intellectual Property Institute (INPI) is holding its first workshop of the year. The chosen area is focused on facilitating...

Symposium: Geographical Indications in the EU

An invitation has arrived to this blog from Nicola Coppola to attend a Symposium on Geographical Indications (GIs). The symposium is to cove...

Chile: national and folk music to be promoted

The Chilean House of Representatives (Camara de Diputados) approved the Bulletin 5491 fixing minimum percentage of national and folk music ...

México: polémica iniciativa para reformar las Leyes de la Propiedad Industrial y de Derecho de Autor

Con la intención de disminuir las cifras relacionadas con la piratería, legisladores del PRI en la Cámara de Diputados presentaron una inic...

How to Get and Set Element Attributes using jQuery

Some of the simplest and most common, operations on jQuery objects are those that get or set the value of HTML attributes, CSS styles, eleme...

How to Use jQuery With HTML?

jQuery() is a single global function defined by jQuery library. This function is so frequently used that the library also defines the global...