Latin America

IP Key Latin America, with the support of the Costa Rica Intellectual Property Register (RNPI), hosted a workshop in San José, Costa Rica, focused on EU-created IP tools. The activity is based on the experience of the European Union Intellectual Property Network –which promoted the adoption of common practices and the development and deployment of technological tools that improve the functioning of IP offices and provide easy access to information on trademarks and designs.  

As part of the activities planned for 2018, IP Key LA organises a series of workshops on EU-created IP tools. The beneficiaries will be IP Offices from Central and South America that have already manifested interest and technical feasibility for integration of such tools.

Between the 14th and 16th of May, Ricardo Ferreira, deputy project leader, participated in a series of workshops related to the protection of brands and designs. These were organized by the IP Key, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, O.A. (OEPM).

The IP Key, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, O.A. (OEPM), joined forces to organize a series of workshops related to the protection of brands and designs.

As of 07 May 2018 the National Institute for the Defence of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property of Peru (INDECOPI) has decided to use the list of goods and services from the harmonised database (HDB) in TMclass.

As a result, Peru is one of the first two non-EU IP offices that will use terms from HDB, one of the expected outcomes of the strategic project “Extension of tools” within EUIPO’s international cooperation projects. This project aims at extending the reach of the EUIPN’s tools beyond the EU for the benefit of global users.

Desde el día 26 de abril de 2018, el Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual de Chile (INAPI) ha puesto a disposición los datos de marcas registradas en la herramienta de búsqueda de TMview.

Con la incorporación del INAPI y de sus 575000 marcas registradas, TMview brinda información y acceso a más de 49,8 millones de marcas registradas, de un total de 65 oficinas.

Former Ambassador of Peru, Jose Antonio Arróspide, and currently Director-General of the Andean Community (CAN), is visiting EUIPO on Tuesday 10 April 2018. This visit has been organised by IP Key Latin America, one of the EU-funded projects under ICLAD’s responsibility.

The aim of this visit is to strengthen the cooperation between the Andean Community and IP Key LA considering that the European Union is one of the principal investors for the Andean countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru).

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Today the project IP Key Latin America is officially launched at the Hotel Camino Real Polanco in Mexico City. The launching event is attended by Mr Miguel Ángel Margáin, Director General of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), Mrs Immaculada Roca i Cortes, Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to Mexico, Mr Javier Moreno, Head of International Cooperation Service from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Antonio Berenguer, team leader of EU-Funded projects, EUIPO.

Today the project IP Key Latin America is officially launched at the premises of San Martin Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina.