This will help innovators see the business opportunities that IP can create.

On March 3, 2017, a Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program started between the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

On May 8, 2018, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) published Resolution No. 218, which amends Resolution number 80 of March 19, 2013.

In 2014, the Decree 38308-JP, amending some of the articles of the Regulations to the Costa Rican Patent Law 6867, entered into force.

The search tool includes information and access to around 40 million trademarks from 54 participating offices.

The Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property joined TMclass, the international technical cooperation platform for trademarks administered by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market.

In October 2016, the Patent Department of the Dominican PTO published a new version of the guidelines for the examination of patent applications.

Its objective is to accelerate innovation and diffusion of green technologies and contribute to the efforts of developing countries in addressing climate change.

As previously reported in our blog, in October 2016 the Ecuadorian Parliament approved the Organic Code for the Social Economy of Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation...

Returning to Argentina, as mentioned before, our Copyright Law does not protect the recipes themselves, but rather how they are expressed, for example in a book.

As it was commented in a previous article, following the wave of strengthening and control of the community and national legislations initiated in the European Union in relation to the acquisition, use and management of personal data, ...

On October 4, 2017 the Brazilian PTO (INPI) and EPO signed the PPH agreement.

We hereby inform the last news published by the Brazilian INPI's official gazette in the past two weeks. We would like to highlight two new rules, in where we found special interest that may benefit our clients.

The Brazilian Senate Plenary approved on Tuesday (2) the bill that creates rules for special protection of "high reputation" brands.

To improve the digitalization of its patent document collection, the Brazilian INPI has published in the Industrial Property Gazette two lists of pending patent applications that should be filed again on-line...

On January 6, 2017, a new Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program between the National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office commenced.

On April 11, 2016, the Colombian Health and Social Protection office approached Novartis AG regarding a formal price offer as part of the Administrative Process for the Declaration of Public Interest.

On May 25, 2018 the European Union, after its approval in Parliament and its European Council, came into force the GDPR, in order to unify the regulations of all the Member States on the matter.

Last August, the CJEU settled a new conflict about the processing of personal data, Facebook and the popular "like" icon.

In March 2017, the Uruguayan government sent a draft law to Parliament to become a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), which is now being discussed before proceeding to vote.