The Paraguayan Customs Authority, after receiving inside information, ordered the seizure of a shipment arriving at Asunción's International Airport "Silvio Pettirossi"'s main terminal.

On May 6, 2016, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian and Uruguayan PTOs...

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a set of initiatives for speeding up the examination process of patent applications filed in participating patent offices.

After the Madrid System entered into force in 2013, Mexican trademark proceedings went through some amendments including the implementation of a formal opposition system...

On October 11, 2016, the Ecuadorian Parliament approved the Organic Code for the Social Knowledge and Innovation Economy (a.k.a. INGENIOS Code).

On January 6, 2019, the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection of Peru (INDECOPI) joined the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) Pilot Program.

The Colombian Ministry of Health, through its Minister Alejandro Gaviria, seeks to declare the drug product Glivec® of public interest, meaning it would improve the well-being of the general population.

The INPI has recently issued Resolution P-56/2016 in order to speed up the granting procedure of those Argentinian patent applications for which an equivalent patent has been granted...

The Protection of Personal Data is a fundamental right of citizens of inexcusable application by any type of organization, both public and private.

The Argentinean government recently filed before the Congressional Agriculture committee an official project to amend the Seed and Phytogenetic Plant Breeding Law (Law 20.247), which dates from 1973.

Through Resolution No. 101961 of 2015, the Colombian PTO has protected the designation of origin (DO) "CAFÉ DE HUILA" (COFFEE HUILA), and has rejected the trademark application "CAFÉ RIO SUAZA"...

Ecuador has been moved from the Priority Watch List to the Watch List in the 2016 Special 301 Report of the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

On May 11, 2016 the Brazilian government published Decree No. 8,772, which regulates Law No. 13,123/2015, related to the access of components of the Brazilian genetic heritage...

This year seems to be important for industrial models or their US equivalent, "patent designs," as the Supreme Courts of both the US and Argentina are issuing rulings on this area.

The Directorate of Drugs and Biological Products of the Colombian MoH– now requires the pharmaceutical drug industry to submit the corresponding Unique Drug Identifier...

The future is coming to Latin America. Does your business have the expertise to everything that comes with it? Beyond the technical know-how and capital to innovate in the biotech sector...

On November 2017, the Chilean PTO (INAPI) published an update of the patent examination guidelines providing clarifications regarding divisional applications.

On April 20, 2018, Brazilian "mailbox" patent PI9507594-1 by Alexion Pharmaceutical Inc. protecting the drug Soliris® (eculizumab) received an unfavorable ruling by the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice regarding its term of protection.

After years of confrontation with the small Irish supermarket chain, "Supermac", founded in 1978, the EUIPO has revoked the rights to use the "Big Mac" brand in the European Union, registered by the multinational-nal "McDonald's".

On August 10, 2016, the first Anti-Piracy Convention was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina featuring several exhibitors from both public and private sectors.