NEWS
Now it’s possible to have a Brand Color!
Colombia’s Trademark Authority (The superintendence of Commerce and Industry) has allowed the Industrial Propertydivision to giveaway 16 color brands for the moment.
What you didn’t know about your trademarks in Venezuela
Venezuela is an interesting market, especially since they became a member of the Mercosur system. This South American trading bloc is rather new.
Better Protection of Cultural Property
n a continuing effort to curb the illegal importation of Peruvian cultural property into the United States, the two nations have renewed their bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Two Heads Are Better than One: Colombian-Swiss Cooperation
Yet another promising international cooperation project has started, this time between the Swiss government -specifically, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property- and several IP-related Colombian institutions.
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
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