Changes to Come: The T.P.P. on Trademarks
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement –TPP– is the most ambitious free trade agreement under negotiation at this moment, with 12 negotiating parties in the Asia-Pacific área.
New Speedy Patents in Peru
In an effort to facilitate the filing of more domestic patents, the Peruvian National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (INDECOPI) has announced a new program called “Speedy Patent,” or “Patente Rapida.”
IP News Bites | Updates on IP regulation in Panama
Panama’s government is finally updating their IP legislation to international standards. In the Latin American IP market, is one of the few countries in the region that has not approved the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Nine heads think better than one: PTO to PTO cooperation
Latin American PTOs have spent several years working on two major cooperation agreements, designed to not only speed up procedures but also to increase the reliability of information and to avoid duplicated procedures