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Reporting of follow-up actions to the EU Commission Counterfeit and Piracy List
The activity pursues raising awareness of IP protection and enforcement by supporting the…Sharing best practices with Platforms: sale of counterfeit goods on the internet
The activity consists of a 1-day hybrid seminar in Sao Paulo, where most companies and platforms…Presentation of studies: 1) Guidelines on Designs for the Andean Community, and 2) Fea
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Workshop for Patent Examiners from Latin American IP Offices: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
The ‘Workshop for Patent Examiners from Latin American IP Offices: Pharma, Biotechnology and…Sub-regional Seminar on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
With more than 60 customs officials, police investigators and prosecutors from Central America and…Operation 404.7: International Fight Against Digital Piracy
On 19 September 2024, the seventh phase of Operation 404, a joint international effort against…Seminar ‘Fighting Intellectual Property Rights Infringements in the Andean Community’
The seminar ‘’Fighting Intellectual Property Rights Violations in the Andean Community‘’ took place…Other news
IP Key relaunched in Latin America
The official launch of the second phase of IP Key Latin America took place in Mexico City on 27 April. The project aims to increase intellectual property protection and enforcement throughout Latin America.
[...]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
[...]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.
[...]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.
[...]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
[...]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
[...]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
[...]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.
[...]Honduras joins TMclass
As of 14 July 2021, the General Directorate of Intellectual Property of Honduras (DIGEPIH) will be included in TMclass.
[...]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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