01 September 2021

IP Key LA to finish Phase 1

The European project carried out 4 economic impact studies in key countries of the region as part of its contributions to the local intellectual property landscape

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30 August 2021

The ‘Registro Nacional’ of Costa Rica aligns with CP6

The ‘Registro Nacional’ of Costa Rica (RN) has just published a Practice Paper concerning the graphic representation of industrial designs.

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26 August 2021

Commemorating IP Key LA’s 48 months of hard work and successful results

In September 2017, when the inception phase of the first-of-its-kind IP project implemented by the EUIPO in Latin America started, it seemed like an ambitious endeavour.

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23 August 2021

IP Key LA and the Andean Community celebrate the publication of repositories of Andean decisions relating to trade mark and design examination

For the first time in the region, the Andean examination practice decisions for trade marks and designs are compiled in a repository that includes best practices from the four IP offices of the Andean Community (CAN) region, in relation to trade mark and design examinat

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06 August 2021

Andean Community countries will have a database of trade marks in the subregion

Today, the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN) and IP Key LA, implemented by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, announced the launch of a technological tool that will allow users to access information on trade marks registered in the subregio

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22 July 2021

IP Key LA – EUIPO study is highlighted during event on the economic impact of intellectual property in Peru

The European project, Intellectual Property Key Latin America (IP Key LA), in conjunction with INDECOPI (Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual), recently

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19 July 2021

July virtual high-level meetings in the margins of WIPO General Assemblies in Geneva 2021

Following the first series of high-level meetings with non-EU stakeholders, which took place in the first half of this year, the Office, over the period from 6 to 16 July, is meeting with the heads of non-EU IP offices.

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15 July 2021

Honduras joins TMclass

As of 14 July 2021, the General Directorate of Intellectual Property of Honduras (DIGEPIH) will be included in TMclass.

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22 June 2021

DNPI Uruguay now aligned with CP5

The National Directorate of Industrial Property under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay (DNPI) has published a practice paper today on the impact of non-distinctive/weak components of trade marks in the examination of llikelihood of confu

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17 June 2021

IP Key LA and INDECOPI present the first economic impact study in Peru

IP Key Latin America (IP Key LA), the Delegation of the European Union in Peru and the National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) present the first study on the economic contributi

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