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Brazil: refining procedures

On July 11, INPI Resolution 199/2017 brought to the public a new examination guidelines for the registration of industrial property license ...

'Desperados' for Tequila?

For some years, the Mexican producers of tequila have manifested disagreement with the use of the word ‘tequila’ in ‘Desperados’ one of the ...

Peru: Electronic Publication System for IP Applications is at your service

On 28 June this year, by means of the Supreme Decree No. 071-2017-PCM , the Peruvian Government approved the implementation of the Electroni...

The Pendency of Brazilian Patent Application and What You Can Do About It

Brazil is notorious for the long pendency of patent application. Currently, the average amount of time for a typical Brazilian patent to be ...

Sweet Colombia: bocadillo gets GI

Few opportunities I have had to try all the beautiful food from Latin America. I mean, there are so many countries that it would be no possi...

Entrevista a Pedro Roffe, recién homenajeado en Ginebra por su contribución a la Propiedad Intelectual

"La transferencia de tecnología persiste como una asignatura pendiente de la comunidad internacional. Pero con el transcurso del tiempo...

Peruvian Pisco or Chilean Pisco: a world competition

This is some news that we got in here today: the Peruvian National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual P...

Peru: modernizing IP registration

The Peruvian Intellectual Property Office (INDECOPI) announced that the Council of Ministers’ President approved the new Regulation of the N...

Reunión anual del Grupo de Trabajo de PCT con presidencia chilena

En la sede de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) en Ginebra, Suiza tuvo lugar entre el 8 y el 12 de mayo de 2017 la ...

Biopiracy: the role of the national IP

In Peru, the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (IDECOPI), has also the role of t...

Collective marks and it benefits

From Peru we heard that the National IPO (INDECOPI) and its regional office in Huanuco have been working non-stop with communities in the sa...