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Peru has introduced safe harbours and a notice-and-takedown process, clarifying when internet and digital service providers are not liable for their users' infringements.

Indecopi noted that this rise not only demonstrates increased inclusion of women in innovation but also suggests a broader diversification of scientific and technological development within Peru’s economy.

Brazil’s intellectual property landscape underwent meaningful modernization in 2025, marked by record filing activity, an updated regulatory framework, procedural improvements, and relevant litigation cases across patents, trademarks, and other IP rights.

Mexico’s Supreme Court has confirmed that copyright registration requires human authorship and that moral rights belong only to natural persons.

In Latin America, counterfeiting remains a significant challenge, and efforts to address it are often undermined by fragmented legal frameworks and uneven enforcement mechanisms.

The official statistics show that the INPI received significant increases across key IP categories in 2025.

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Awareness of intellectual property (IP) rights continues to rise worldwide, with Latin American and Caribbean states standing out for notably high levels of understanding of copyright, trademarks and geographical indications, according to the latest WIPO Pulse 2025 study.

This sets out uniform criteria for customs action against imported goods suspected of being counterfeit or of having a false indication of origin.

WTR’s IP Office Innovation Ranking is a multi-year project to identify how IP offices are using and developing value-added, non-core offerings for users

The EU Council authorised the signing of two agreements with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

The reform aims to reduce delays, increase legal predictability, and align Argentina’s trade mark system with international standards.

From January 2026, Brazil’s INPI will suspend the accelerated examination process for telecommunications patents.

Now that Paraguay has joined TMview, all MERCOSUR countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) are included.

The two main news items this year have been Brazil joining the Budapest Treaty and Chile joining three treaties (Locarno, Nice, Vienna), and one more (Strasbourg) next year.

The decree modernises the rules on compensation for private copying in an increasingly more digitalized context.

By bringing visitors directly to the place of origin, this form of tourism stimulates local value creation through on-site sales, hospitality services, and complementary activities, thereby increasing the share of GI-related value that remains within the community.

Overall, Chile in 2025 offers EU SMEs: a relatively predictable institutional framework, an efficient and increasingly digital IP office, a modernized trade relationship with the EU, and an active legislative agenda on AI, data, and neurorights.

The Chilean Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill to protect performers’ digital royalties despite rights transfers.