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Brazil: new numbers for patents, industrial design and geographical indications’ applications

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The Patent Board (DIRPA) and the Department of Contracts, Records and Geographical Indications (DICIG) reported last week that they are goin...

Counterfeits: not just CDs and DVDs

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This month the National Council to Combat Piracy and Crimes against Intellectual Property (CNCP) has reported that the last past 6 years, th...

Primera Exposición de Denominaciones de Origen de México

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El 5 de diciembre recién pasado tuvo lugar la inauguración de la Primera Exposición de Denominaciones de Origen, realizada en las instalacio...

When trade marks and company names clash: a new experience for Argentina

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The Inspección de Personas Jurídicas, the authority in charge of approving the incorporation of legal entities in Argentina, was asked by Fa...

Argentinean lionesses do defend well not only on the field

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The Argentinean Division II of the National Chamber for Federal Civil and Commercial upheld the ruling made in a lawsuit where the trade mar...

IMPI closes down two commercial establishments

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The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property ( IMPI ) taking its duties very seriously – that of safeguarding the legitimate interests of In...

Jurisprudencia: El efecto sorprendente es ilegal y no determina el nivel inventivo de una patente

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Un reciente fallo de casación en el fondo de la Corte Suprema de Chile ha resuelto un asunto de gran interés teórico y práctico relacionado ...

Brazil’s ‘got a lovely bunch of’...melons

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The Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propiedad Industrial ( INPI ) received on Monday 28th of November, another application for Geographical ...

Some news from Cuba: biotechnology and medicines

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Radio Angulo from Cuba reports that the Habana is holding this week - November 28 to December 3, at the Havana’s Center of Biotechnology an...

García Márquez gana juicio por Cien Años de Soledad y el derecho a la intimidad

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En Colombia el Tribunal Superior de Barranquilla le dio la razón al escritor Gabriel García Márquez (Premio Nobel de Literatura, 1982) en un...

Intangible Cultural Heritage: more than IPRs

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The last couple of days members of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage - UNESCO, has been discussin...

Acta del Comité Directivo del Sistema de Cooperación Regional en Propiedad Industrial:PROSUR

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Sobre el proyecto PROSUR hay variadas opiniones. Considerando que para el 30 de Noviembre está fijada la próxima reunión en Ecuador, es opor...