We are happy to announce that INTA was a fruitful conference and that we accomplish our goals, we were able to meet with people from Belize, Saudi Arabia, India, Asia, Africa, United States, Europe and even with our Latin America Colleagues.
Geographical indications, as distinctive signs, have the primary function of vindicating own qualities and reputation of products in relation to the place and conditions where they are produced.
The database contains information of over 60 Intellectual Property offices and allows quick and easy sorting of products and services for the issuing of Distinctive Sign applications. Users can easily identify over 70,000 terms and expressions for various products and services.
For the first time in Colombia the Ministry of Health will issue a resolution that will allow the access to the drug Glivec (Imatinib) which is protected by a patent in Colombia.
The convention applies only to public documents that need to be authorized. If both countries are part of the convention, an Apostille will be sufficient. There will be no need for any more documents or procedures to make the legal document count in one of the both countries.
The harmonization of laws, seeks to improve the defense of intellectual property protection by improving the time for Copyright, Trademarks, Patents procedures, and to provide greater guarantees to inventions and creations.
The company Asia Focus was convicted in 1998 for using the words "playboy" and "playmate", so that when they were typed into a search engine on the Internet, those words suggested their website.
A common issue when providing legal representation and advice to start-ups and entrepreneurs is to find trademarks that were not created taking into account the legal side of the trademark’s wording and design.
Resolution No. 3719 supplements and amends some paragraphs in Chapter I of Title X of the Circular of the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce related to Patents.
Resolution No. 3718 seeks to amend paragraphs 1.2.5.3 and 1.2.5.5 of Chapter I in Title X of the Circular and add paragraphs 1.2.5.13, 1.2.5.14 and 1.2.5.15 in Chapter I of Title X of the Circular.