Latin America

IP Key LA, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), the Council of the Federal Judiciary, the General Administration of Customs and the Delegation of the European Union to Mexico co-organized, three events to promote the exchange of experiences, trends and best practices in the application of IP regulations, with emphasis on piracy and counterfeiting. The IP Enforcement Week took place during the week of November 12 to 16 in Mexico City.

IP Key LA and the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) of Colombia organized a Regional Workshop on Trade Marks and Designs Examination Guidelines, with the collaboration of the Andean Secretariat and in the context of IP Key’s cooperation with PROSUR. The goal was to promote connectable discussions with regard to offices’ practices in different trade mark and industrial design registration processes.

As of 12 November 2018 the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) will use the list of goods and services from the harmonised database (HDB) in TMclass and IMPI’s online tool ClasNiza.

Following IMPI’s decision to use HDB there are now four non-EU IP offices that use and accept terms from this database.

With the extension of the reach of HDB to IMPI through TMclass, this tool now offers users the opportunity to search and translate harmonised concepts among 31 IP offices.

IP Key LA is jointly organizing, with the Andean Secretariat and the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC), an Andean Workshop on Geographical Indications (GIs) and Appellations of Origin (AOs), with the purpose of gathering geographical indications experts and negotiators from the Andean countries, to analyse and review the registration processes and implementation of regulations applicable to GIs and AOs in this region.

IP Key LA and the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) of Colombia have organized a two-day Regional Workshop on Trade Marks and Designs Examination Guidelines, to promote connectable discussions with regard to offices’ practices. The activity will be implemented with the collaboration of the Andean Secretariat and in the context of IP Key’s cooperation with PROSUR.

As a major step in the process of building and consolidating an IPR network in the region, IP Key LA will hold the IP Enforcement Week in Mexico, with the collaboration of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, the Council of the Federal Judiciary, the General Administration of Customs and the EU Delegation to Mexico. Between November 12th and 16th, activities will take place in different venues of Mexico City.

As of 22 October 2018 the National Registry of the Republic of Costa Rica (RNPCR) has made its trade mark and design data available to the TMview and DesignView search tools.

With RNPCR on board TMview and DesignView, both tools now contain data from 68 participating offices.

With the addition of more than 275.000 trade marks from RNPCR, TMview provides information and access to more than 51,9 million trade marks in total. DesignView contains more than 14,1 million designs, including more than 1700 designs from RNPCR.