To raise awareness and learn about the EU judicial practice in the area of ​​copyright infringement in the digital environment, IP Key LA has organized an activity in Bogotá, Colombia. The objective of the seminar is to exchange judicial and administrative experiences of the EU and Colombia regarding copyright infringement, in order to increase convergence in the application of intellectual property laws between these countries.

To raise awareness and knowledge on copyrights, IP Key LA has organized two events in Lima, Perú. These will provide a positive view of IPRs that highlights its potential to boost company revenues based on innovation and the construction of adequate and proper IP business strategies.

IP Key LA pursues the goal of favoring the development and implementation of modern, internationally accepted procedures and practices for obtaining IPRs in Latin American countries and providing capacity building which can bring benefits to as wide a range of recipient Offices.

As of 27 September 2019, The Department of Intellectual Property under the of Ministry of Commerce in Thailand (DIP) has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.

With DIP on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 69 participating offices.

With the addition of more than 960.000 trade marks from DIP, TMview provides information and access to more than 54.7 million trade marks in total.

From 26 to 27 September 2019, the EUIPO receives a visit of a delegation from the Intellectual Property Office of Viet Nam (IP Viet Nam), led by Mr Phan Ngan Son, the Deputy Director General.

IP Viet Nam is an agency under the Ministry of Science and Technology that makes recommendations to and assists the Minister of Science and Technology in coordinating with other ministries and agencies to perform state administration functions in the area of intellectual property. It also directly exercises the State administration function in the field of industrial property.