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A network to attend: calling SMEs

No many times we receive news from Costa Rica and every time I see something in this country I get very excited [perhaps it’s because of its...

Pisco: Chile vs Peru

The Chilean Association of Producers of Pisco has heatedly reacted after a commercial banner located in a main area in Santiago de Chile re...

Argentina: The sun come out tomorrow... and you will have to put extra money at the IPO

From tomorrow onward the Argentina Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industral ( INPI ) will awake with new (increased) fees. The rise will...

Mexico: time to oppose to trade mark registration

At the end of this month (August 30, 2016) Mexico will implement an opposition system in trade mark. In May this year the Latin America IPR ...

Samba, carnival...yep, you got it, we bring news from Brazil

From Brazil we looked at the number ‘57’ as a registered Geographical Indication (GI). The application came from the Instituto Bordado Filé ...

A vacancy for PISCO: regulating GIs

In Latin American countries some Geographical Indications (GI) systems are controlled by the government and/or owned by the state e.g. Mexic...

A helping hand for enterprises.

We heard from Brazil that the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDE...

Peru: promoting IPRs to citizens

Two sets of news caught my attention from the Peruvian IPO (INDECOPI)’s newsroom. Both of them in a way incentive and promote IP. This endor...