February 2018

Patent Support Program: Arriva Mexico!

In developing an IP culture, Mexico is launching a ‘support program’. The idea is to assist inventors whose inventions may be capable of IP ...

Access to Genetic Resources: Peru persistent monitoring body

The Peruvian National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection (INDECOPI) has a crucial office called The National C...

Chile: Rechazan recurso por lanzamiento de discos compactos de patrimonio Kawésqar

Los kawésqar, kawashkar, alacalufes o alakalufes son un grupo nómada indígena de la zona Austral de Chile , que recorrían en canoa los cana...

Perú y Australia suscriben TLC

Gracias a nuestros amigos de Clarke, Modet & Cº , nos enteramos que el pasado 12 de febrero Perú y Australia han suscrito un tratado de ...

China and Brazil: taking the highway?

February 1st saw the launch of the Instituto Nacional da Propiedad Industrial (INPI)'s Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot project wi...

Brazil’s IPO backlog

According to the Instituto Nacional da Propiedade Industrial (INPI) its backlog was reduced in 2017. These is counting all applications ie p...

Stop the Press: Decree encouraging innovation and scientific research is out

Brazil. Yesterday (08/02/2018) the Official Gazette published Decree No. 9,283, of February 7, 2018, which establishes measures to encourage...

Make-up: a copyright affair – Argentina says YES!

At the moment I am teaching my students copyright: the subject matter of protection. One of the big issues and moot questions we cover are t...