Bolivia Issues Regulations On IP Violations

The increase in actions for IP violations in Bolivia over the last six years has allowed the National Intellectual Property Service (SENAPI) to assess the lack of regulations on certain aspects, including border measures, provisional remedies, notices, and procedures for enforcing punitive resolutions.

As a result, SENAPI prepared the new Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights Violations, whose purpose is to facilitate access to intellectual property rights protection, as well as to step up the administrative processing of such actions.

SENAPI has already made the Regulations public at its chief offices in the country (Santa Cruz, La Paz, Sucre and Cochabamba), and expects the number of actions for violations to continue growing.