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Manila, Philippines

Train-the-Trainers Programme for South East Asian Patent Examiners

Enhancing the quality of patent examination results, shortening turnaround times, and decreasing backlogs are common concerns of IPR stakeholders across SEA countries. As the capacities of patent examiners directly affect their productivity and performance, IP Key seeks to support its SEA partner countries through facilitating the development of a collective Training Programme for Patent Examiners of the SEA IP Offices.

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SMEs from the Andean Community and Europe participated in the Itinerant Seminar How to increase the value of their commercial assets through IP?

During 6 days, experts from INDECOPI (Peru), SENADI (Ecuador), SIC (Colombia), EUIPO, Latin America IPR SME Helpdesk, the OEPM and INPI France, among others, gave presentations and participated in debates that combined experiences, best practices and theoretical and statistical information.

IP Key Latin America held this edition of its roving seminar for SMEs, focused on the Andean countries, as a follow-up to the editions that took place in Mexico and Central America and Chile and Mercosur.

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Quito, Ecuador

IP Key La Announces New Workshop on Trade Marks and Designs Examination Practice

The IP Key Latin America 2018 work plan included the holding of a workshop in Costa Rica to facilitate the adoption of the search and classification tools created by EUIPO, from which the following results were obtained in 6 offices: RPI Costa Rica (TMview, DesignView y HDB), DNPI Uruguay (TMview, DesignView y TMclass), OCPI Cuba (TMclass), CNR El Salvador (TMclass), SENADI Ecuador (TMclass), DIGERPIH Honduras (DesignView).

In parallel, IMPI Mexico and INDECOPI Peru decided to use the harmonized database (HDB).

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