Intellectual Property for EU SMEs in Latin America
Bernardo AlarconIP Specialist Lawyer – Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) Intellectual property infringement is a matter of constant concern for companies across the globe. At an European level, EUIPO´s Intellectual Property SME Scoreboard indicated that preventing others from copying their products or services is one of the top three reasons why SMEs register IPRs. Moreover, […]
Dr. Begoña Glez. OteroIP Researcher and Consultant Trademarks are normally at the forefront of the intellectual property portfolio of any SME. Reasons are quite obvious. Trademarks serve as an ID through which it can be easily identified from the rest of competitors. Consumers can distinguish the products and services of a company thanks to their […]
Elis SalisFounding Partner at Disain IP Sebastián CortinaSenior Associate Intellectual Property Attorney at Kors Noviks If you are thinking about internationalising your business into the Argentine market, and your services could imply the licensing of IP rights, providing technical assistance or know-how to an Argentine resident, here we point out some local rules you may […]
The China, Latin America and South-East Asia IPR SME Helpdesks, initiatives of the European Commission, are holding their Annual Stakeholder Meeting in Brussels on the 27th of March 2019. This event aims to: • inform SME intermediaries on the SME instrument and the IP services offered by the Helpdesks (with live case studies from companies); […]
Robert Pocklington Latin America IPR SME Helpdesk The intense cooperation and partnership between the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) and the European Patent Office (EPO) over the last two years, has resulted on the introduction by INPI of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC). Planned to be implemented by January 2019, this new […]
Alessio Balbo di Vinadio – Trainee at Clarke, Modet & Co. Spain Gilberto Macías – Senior Advisor and Lawyer at Clarke, Modet & Co. Spain “In 10 years 10 percent of the global GDP will be stored in blockchains” this data insight comes from the World Economic Forum, but what implications does it have (pragmatically) on […]
Citlali Carlos Associate attorney at VILA Attorneys at Law There have been two transcendental amendments to the industrial property law of Mexico, which are important to keep in mind for those EU SMEs who are planning to invest in our country. The first amendment was published on March 13 2018, mainly in the field of […]
Álvaro Ramírez Bonilla CEO, Latin American IP LLC Colombia has recently been accepted to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It is the third Latin American country to join this organization after Mexico and Chile. In the region, Colombia is the third most populous country in Latin America after Brazil and Mexico […]
Alessio Balbo di Vinadio – Trainee at Clarke, Modet & Co. Spain Following our previous publication on data processing, this article will address the issue of the first few small repercussions of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter ‘GDPR’) on the online world. In that same aforementioned article, the author rightly stated that […]
Sara Isabel Tortosa – Partner at Tortosa Gadea Lawyers Ana A. García Torralba – Junior associate attorney at Emilio García y Abogados Asociados Colombia set, as an objective, the consolidation of an effective and reliable patent system. This objective has been reached as it has been statistically proven. According to the Colombian Intellectual Property Office, namely the […]
