An MoU was signed by the Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian and Uruguayan PTOs, all members of the regional collaborative project on Industrial Property PROSUR.

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

He also noted that 206 officials were trained and urged the attendees to increase joint efforts.

On December 1, 2015 resolution No. 109/2015 entered into force. It was issued by the National Registry of Internet Domain Names, and created three new extensions and new fees for the registration of domain names under the country code ".ar".

On 30 October 2018, the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) in order to reduce its current backlog published Rule 227/2018, regulating for the analysis of patents using the results of searches in other national or regional patent offices.

The Brazilian Supplementary Law 167/2019, which established INOVA SIMPLES, a simplified special regime of companies, which grants differentiated tax treatment, was published in the Official Gazette of April 24, 2019 ...

On the other hand, in the case of patents, a patent law review is planned and, also, the development of a compensation system for the protection of drug patents.

On January 19, 2017, Guatemala joined the 1961 Hague Convention abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (known as the "Apostille Convention").

The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property, within the anti-piracy campaign in beaches, urges those who visit Peru...

The local PTO (Indecopi) recently reminded creators of advertising and electoral campaigns that if they use music, photographs, audiovisual works, etc...

During the trial, the Provo-based startup had previously filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and are currently still going through those proceedings.

In 2014 an operation was carried out in which two brothers were found smuggling over 700 pieces of clothing from China with well-known trademarks.

According to the Official Gazette No. 40486 published on February 11, 2016, the Venezuelan Government has increased the tributary unit (tax unit in Venezuela)...

On March 8, 2018 the project IP Key Latin America was officially launched at the San Martin Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This meeting is a result of the agreements reached during the II Permanent Binational Commission Mexico-Venezuela held on November 5-6, 2014, in Ciudad de México.

On Friday, June 23, 2017, the Argentine Association of IP Agents (AAAPI) published in their Bulletin No. 1415, the discussion relating to the possible increase of official fees.

In June, the United States Trade Representative´s Office (USTR) issued an official report entitled "Special 301 Report," which highlighted the different problems that both U.S. Government...

The Chilean national football team player, Arturo Vidal, is being sued by the "Hueso Santo" advertising agency because, according to their claim, one of the player's tattoos is based on a logo they created.

Two draft amendments to the Copyright Law 23 of 1982 covering Columbian copyright law are being reviewed in Congress and are awaiting approval.

In view of this, Novartis submitted a Nullity Action of resolutions 40626 and 35270 to the Council of State.