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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.
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.
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 new scheme, established by Regulation (EU) 2023/2411, introduces EU-wide geographical-indication protection for craft and industrial products (CIGIs).
Intellectual property has come up around COP30 in 2025, though mainly in the context of technology transfer, justice, and Indigenous knowledge rather than as a standalone agenda item.
The recent landscape of industrial and intellectual property in Mexico reflects a period of significant legal modernisation, but also of substantial regulatory and operational challenges.
Between 2022 and 2025, Colombia’s intellectual property (IP) system underwent a series of regulatory and institutional changes, generating some concern among rights holders, innovation stakeholders, and both domestic and foreign investors.
The Latin America IP SME Helpdesk has been supporting EU Small and Medium Enterprises for precisely 10 years, helping thousands of companies and working with Business Support Organisations and other Stakeholders.
Latin America sports streaming platforms' revenue in 2024 was over 1,700 million euros, and it is expected to reach a projected 3,700 million euros in 2030, meaning a compound annual growth rate of 13%. Despite these good numbers, piracy costs the industry over 630 million euros yearly.
Latin America's furniture market is growing rapidly, driven by urbanisation, a rising middle class, and demand for innovative designs.
Music is a universal form of creative expression and intellectual property (IP) rights play a pivotal role in supporting a vibrant and diverse music landscape.
IP for music bands: Check our interview with the Spanish band WAKAME.
Groundbreaking EU-Mercosur partnership agreement. The Annex on Intellectual Property in the EU-Mercosur Agreement contains provisions to harmonise protection standards and ensure the effective enforcement of IP rights.
The two main news this year have been Uruguay becoming the 158th member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), from January 2025; and the new IP Law in force in El Salvador.
Check the key Changes in the New Salvadorian Intellectual Property Law.
What would you do if you discovered that the board game you are yet to release is already being counterfeited? This is the case with Wonderbow games, and their new game “Kelp”, which is being released this October.
The LDPD focuses primarily on data processing by entities within Uruguay. It features a more flexible approach to data protection obligations and penalties, which is in line with Uruguay's legal and regulatory environment.
Chile’s proposed AI bill introduces an exception to the Chilean Copyright Law, allowing the use of large datasets for data mining, provided it doesn’t result in direct commercial exploitation of copyrighted material.
