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The Latin America IP SME Helpdesk team proudly welcomes you to its blog, in which you will find updated information concerning Intellectual Property Rights in Latin America, as well as other interesting information about SMEs, Internationalization, R&D or Innovation.
What is circular economy?
The European Parliament has recently approved a classification based on six objectives, which aim to orient public investmen...
Diego Francoise Ortega SanabriaTechnical Secretary at the Commission of Inventions and New Technologies – INDECOPI In those economic sectors in which
...Patents protect all new inventions that solve a technical problem by technical means. They are given in return for the complete disclosure of the
One of the basic rules for the protection of IP rights is that in order to benefit from the monopoly granted through the registration of a patent in a...
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For those of you who follow our LATAM Flagship Blog for some time, you heard about the IP diagnostic tool since our publication ‘2019, another IP year...
Every year the World Intellectual Property Organization, Cornell University and the European Institute ESADE issue the Global Innovation Index (GII)
As usual, our IP Helpdesk was planning the spring events all around Europe, in which all our experts and IP representatives go and meet with EU SMEs...
Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) has become one of the hot topics of our time, to such an extent that separating the serious from the frivolous can...
Since its establishment by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) two decades ago, IP Day has been celebrated worldwide every 26th of...
As promised in our end of year post published last December, the Latin America IP SME Helpdesk has now issued its very own online Cost Tool!
The Sustainable Development Goals are defined by the United Nations as “the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”.
Now that the Star Wars Skywalker’s Saga is ended (with the 9th episode “The Rise of Skywalker”) and that we just came back from our last event...
The Smart City World Congress and Expo (SCWC) is a global event on smart cities and their interconnected sectors: mobility, urban planning, energy...
...The Web Summit 2019 is an annual technology conference held in Lisbon, Portugal.
As a representative of the Latin America IPR SME Helpdesk, I travel to trade fairs and conferences across Europe all year round.
INDECOPI has issued a report in Spanish and English on the enforcement measures of Patents and Design rights in Peru during the last 5 years.
Have you met this woman before? I bet so. She is present in countless advertising campaigns (proof of it here), so you probably assumed that she was...
On May 22 the Brazilian Senate Plenary approved, via the Legislative Decree 49/19, the texts relating to the Madrid Protocol.
Far away from being a hashtag trend, the FinTech industry is changing the global landscape by creating new and exciting technological developments
The Argentinian government pushes on with its reform of the national trademark law.
Intellectual property infringement is a matter of constant concern for companies across the globe.
Trademarks are normally at the forefront of the intellectual property portfolio of any SME. Reasons are quite obvious.
If you are thinking about internationalising your business into the Argentine market, and your services could imply the licensing of IP rights, provid...
Once you have decided to expand your business beyond Europe, any help you might have on the way will always be welcome, right?
The China, Latin America and South-East Asia IPR SME Helpdesks, initiatives of the European Commission, are holding their Annual Stakeholder Meeting
The intense cooperation and partnership between the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) and the European Patent Office (EPO)...
One aspect of intellectual property in Latin America, which is often overlooked especially by European entrepreneurs, is the relationship between IP...