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...

Before filing for a registration, it is recommended to request an Official Phonetic Search. For our VIP clients, we provide this service on a complimentary basis.

A three-year prison sentence has been handed down to one of the defendants in a case of significant media interest in which Ecuadorian authorities broke up an illegal network producing and distributing counterfeiting pharmaceuticals.

Processes and response times for trademark, slogan and trade name registrations should be reduced to six months.

The National Service of Intellectual Property Rights (SENADI) confirmed the adoption of border measures on the import of a container with more than 600,000 counterfeit goods of different marks

In the first instance, SENADI rejected the opposition and granted the registration because there was no risk of confusion or association for consumers.

The XXII ASIPI Workshops and Board of Directors will be held in November 2020. Its organization is always an interesting job for the Organizing Committee that you Co-Chair.

Ecuador's trade mark system is what is known as "first-to-file". This means that simply using a mark in Ecuador confers little to no rights.

The "Código Orgánico de la Economía Social de los Conocimientos, Creatividad e Innovación," which supersedes the current Intellectual Property Law, was recently published on December 9, 2016.

Our associate Katherine González, specialist in Intellectual Property, has published a new article in World Trademark Review on the contradictory criteria for the examination of trademarks...

Katherine González, one of our associates whose field of specialty is Intellectual Property, has written an article for the medium "Criterios Digital". In her article, she analyzes the possibility...

The Ecuadorian IP Office recently seized more than 37,000 items during operations carried out simultaneously at seven stores and a warehouse in three different cities – Guayaquil, Manta and Portoviejo.

After an operation carried out on the 20th March 2018 at "La Bahía", the largest informal market in Ecuador located in Guayaquil, the Attorney General ordered the arrest of the owners of stores from which counterfeit goods of various brands were seized.

El día 14 de julio 2021 el medio especializado en asuntos de Propiedad Intelectual, WTR – World Trademark Review publicó un artículo escrito por Andrea Miño Moncayo...

On July 14, 2021, World Trademark Review (WTR), the media specialized in Intellectual Property, published an article written by Andrea Miño Moncayo.

Following passage of the Organic Code on the Social Economy of Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation, its Regulations for Application were published in Official Registry Supplement No. 9 on June 7, 2017...

Our associate Katherine González is publishing an article in the specialized media World Trademark Review in which she explains the new criterion of the SENADI (National Services for...

En palabras de nuestra experta, "los principios de primacía y efecto directo en la obligación de los Estados miembros de optimizar el ordenamiento jurídico especializado...