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By Marco Euroza.  Senior Consultant Legal Department. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)...

By Daniela Gaito. Jr Lawyer. Moeller IP. Since 2013, cannabis...

By Pablo Iannello. Of Counsel. On April 29th of 2021,...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Lawyer. After Paraguay put into motion a...

By Marco García Euroza. Lawyer. On September 2, 2021, the...

By Ivan Blomquist. Layer.  One of the most important people...

By Marco Euroza. Lawyer.  Earlier last month, on July 5th,...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Lawyer. South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange Upbit,...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Lawyer. Earlier July, Tencent Holdings Ltd. a...

By Manuel Lobato. Lawyer.  Personal data represents an accumulation of...

By Marco Garcia Euroza. Lawyer.  On June 28, 2021, the...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Junior Lawyer. SEGA Co., Ltd. has announced...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. Through a joint resolution -N°5...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. On April 5th, 2021 an...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. It has always been kept...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Junior Lawyer. A common misconception regarding Open...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. Data Protection Compliance: GDPR The...

By Marco Antonio García Euroza. Senior Patent Consultant. New Regulation...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. On February 2nd, the European...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer.  The Federal Court of the...

By Ivan Blomqvist.  Júnior Lawyer. A recent decision issued by...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. In view of the worldwide...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. 1. Introduction: MERCOSUR-EU Agreement and...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. 1.Introduction. As announced by the...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. Background of the case The...

By Ivan Blomqvist. ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) The “Regulation of the...

By Manuel Lobato. Patents Lawyer. Guide of Impact on the...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademarks Lawyer, and University Professor FaceApp...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademark Lawyer   Echoes of the...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademark Lawyer Personal Data is not...

By Maria Sol Porro As it was commented in a...

By Maria Sol Porro The fight against piracy always meant...

By Maria Sol Porro As we mentioned in previous articles,...

By Maria Sol Porro Fines for Infringement of the Data...

By Maria Sol Porro The Protection of Personal Data is...

Opinion by Noelia Cueva What is Comparative Advertisement? Do you...

by Marta García New trade agreement  - USMCA On November...

By Maria Sol Porro The Supreme Court of Argentina ruled...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department Artificial Intelligence and...

by Jose Santacroce On March 13, 2018, the Mexican government...

By Marta Garcia What is the Bolar exemption? Some products,...

by Raquel Teixeira On February 27, 2018, the Brazilian INPI...

By Moeller IP Advisors In Peru, patent coverage for branded...

By Moeller IP Advisors By 2050, more than half of...

By Moeller IP Advisors Cannabis is the preferred designation of...

By Moeller IP Advisors The concept of the Internet of...

By Moeller IP Advisors Gene therapy is a pioneering medical...

Insights by José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department at Moeller...

by Moeller IP Advisors Nanotechnology is the manipulation and production...

By Moeller IP Advisors Nanotechnology is a growing field with...

By Moeller IP Advisors Argentina is one of the most...

By Moeller IP. On Tuesday, 17th of May 2022, the Parlasul (Committee on Brazilian Representation in the Mercosur Parliament) approved...

By Miriam Silvestri. Patents Engineer. A new IP Law (N° 21355) came into force in Chile on May 9, 2022,...

By Mariano Tabanera. Trademarks Lawyer. A new amendment for the Chilean legislation in connection to Industrial Property has been reformed,...

By Mariana Volpi. Lawyer. Writing and finishing a book is an incredibly hard task, it takes both determination and a...

By Mariana Volpi. Lawyer. Have you ever wondered why there is no other beverage that tastes quite like Coca-Cola, or...

By Mariana Volpi. Lawyer. On the 24th of February, we all watched in astonishment as the Russian forces entered Ukraine,...

By Carlos Cavalcanti. Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil. The Brazilian PTO published this Tuesday (09/21), in the Industrial Property...

By Marco García Euroza. Lawyer. By May 30, the Chilean National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) reported 27,749 trademarks filings....

By Manuel Lobato. Lawyer. INTRODUCTION. At a global level, there are two major models of personal data protection that contain...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Junior Lawyer. After a decade from its beginning, the Google vs. Oracle has ended with Google on...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Junior Lawyer. In 2017, AM General LLC known for manufacturing the military vehicle known as the Humvee,...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Junior Lawyer. In 1961, Polaroid Corporation brought suit to Polarad Electrical Corporation alleging that the use of...

By Ivan Blomqvist. Junior Lawyer. Perhaps the most widely applied test for protecting free speech, which is found under the...

By Moeller IP Team. The Argentine Patent and Trademark Office published in the Official Electronic Bulletin dated November 24, 2020,...

By Moeller IP. The Argentinian Patent and Trademark Office published the Resolution N 183-2020 in the Electronic Official Bulletin of...

By Moeller IP Team. The Argentinian Patent and Trademark Office published the Resolution N 171-2020 in the Electronic Official Bulletin...

By Moeller IP Team. The Argentinian Patent and Trademark Office published the Resolution N 167-2020 in the Electronic Official Bulletin...

By Moeller IP Team. The Argentinian Patent and Trademark Office published the Resolution N 142-2020 in the Electronic Official Bulletin...

By Carlos Cavalcanti. Lawyer, Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil. The Brazilian PTO has postponed the entry into force of...

By Moeller IP Team. If you’ve received a notification of provisional refusal in response to your international trademark application from...

By Moeller IP Team. If you are looking to designate Brazil or Germany in your international trademark application, this article...

By Moeller IP Team. The Argentinian Patent and Trademark Office published the Resolution N 78-2020 in the Electronic Official Bulletin...

By Moeller IP Team. If you’re reading this article, you will have received a notification of provisional refusal by a...

By Moeller IP Team. If you’re reading this, it’s safe to imagine that you have applied for an International Trademark,...

By Moeller IP Team. When filing for an EU Trademark to protect your brand, you might receive a Notice of...

By Moeller IP Team.  After jumping through all the hoops to register your international trademark, filing the application, and following...

By Moeller IP Team. Filing for an EU Trademark is a wise decision if you want to protect your brand...

By Moeller IP Team. Knowing how to register an international trademark is necessary if you operate internationally and want to...

By Moeller IP Team.  Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends, Moeller IP Advisors is happy to inform you that, for the...

By Moeller IP. Resolution Nr. 16-2020 due to coronavirus The Argentinian Patent and Trademark Office published the Resolution Nr.16-2020 in...

By Maria Sol Porro. Trademarks Lawyer and University Professor. Conflict "G-Star" against "Cofemel" After determining last year that the taste...

By Maria Sol Porro. Trademarks Lawyer and University Professor. "Copyright and Related Rights Law No. 9,739" The Uruguayan Senate refused...

Maria Sol Porro. Trademarks Lawyer and University Professor. New Domain Registration Since last September, the first level domain ¨.AR¨ is...

By Vivien Racy. Lawyer and Client Relationship Manager. Answers to Brazil and Madrid Protocol As soon as Brazil announced its...

By Maria Sol Porro. Trademarks Lawyer and University Professor. Conflict about the processing of data protection  Last August, the CJEU...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademarks Lawyer and University Professor. Nullity of the Adidas Community trademark Last June, the General Court...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademarks Lawyer, and University Professor VidAngel Case On Monday, June 17, a U.S. District Court in...

By Mariano Tabanera, Senior Trademark Lawyer International Registrations Through the Madrid Protocol any national from a signatory country can file...

By INPI Argentina   Decree 403/2019 DECTO-2019-403-APN-PTE - Decree Nº 260/1996 Amendment. City of Buenos Aires, 6/5/2019 BY VIRTUE OF...

By Marta Garcia, Patent Technical Advisor   On May 22, 2019, the Brazilian Senate approved the Draft Legislative Decree No....

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademark Lawyer The PepsiCo company, owner of well-known trademarks such as Pepsi, Lays, Gatorade and Doritos,...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademark Lawyer A Chilean proposal has once again brought back the battle of Peru against Chile...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademark Lawyer General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) On May 25, 2018 the European Union, after its...

By Maria Sol Porro, Trademark Lawyer Last March the plenary of the European Parliament approved the New Copyright Directive, with...

By Carlos Cavalcanti, Managing Partner Moeller IP Brazil   The Brazilian Senate Plenary approved on Tuesday (2) the bill that creates...

By Maria Sol Porro After years of confrontation with the small Irish supermarket chain, "Supermac", founded in 1978, the European...

By Maria Sol Porro Read on to know the 8 changes on the New European Trademark Directive. If you want...

By Maria Sol Porro Since YouTube appeared in the virtual world in 2005, the ways of creating and sharing content...

By Maria Sol Porro Company Capri Internacional S.A. was sanctioned in the first instance with a fine of $140,000 USD...

by Marta Garcia According to the 2018 Activity Report recently published by the Brazilian PTO (INPI), last year there was...

By Maria Sol Porro Silvina Luna, a well-known Argentine model, obtained a favorable ruling in the second instance in her...

By Maria Sol Porro The Director of transport of Sayco and Acinpro (Colombian management entity of communication rights, musical works...

By Mariano Tabanera The registration of license agreements before Industrial Property Offices has different effects around the world. In many...

By Maria Sol Porro After arduous debates in the legislature and the public sphere, Law 1915 was enacted in Colombia...

By Moeller IP Advisors Cybersquatting, the practice of registering domain names using a small variation on a trademark’s name, has...

By Maria Sol Porro Chamber V of the Argentine National Criminal and Correctional Chamber reversed a First Instance ruling that...

By Mariano Tabanera Changes in the Trademark Legistation Read on to know some amendments in the Trademark Legislation, which although...

By Maria Sol Porro Concerts of the "Tigres del Norte", a Mexican popular band, scheduled in Colombia for the first...

By Maria Sol Porro Since any student begins to study the law of Copyright in Argentina, we learn that this...

By Marta García On November 14, 2018, the Industrial Property Bulletin No. 588 (special issue), published by the Venezuelan PTO...

By Maria Sol Porro The Dominican Association of Intellectual Property (ADOPI) expressed concern about legislative measures to amend Law 20-00...

By Maria Sol Porro As a result of an investigation by the National Commission for the Defense of Competition (CNDC),...

By Moeller IP Advisors After years of judicial battles, Dior succeeds before the Chinese Justice System. In 2015, the French...

By Moeller IP Advisors In July, the Argentine Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) issued the resolution P-183, instituting a new...

By María Sol Porro The Mexican Senate approved on Thursday, April 26, 2018, an amendment to the Federal Law of...

By María Sol Porro Since the law 11,723 was enacted in 1933 different human expressions were included in its art,...

By Mariano Tabanera Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini, one of the World’s best soccer players has now yet another cause for...

By María Sol Porro The Chilean national football team player, Arturo Vidal, is being sued by the "Hueso Santo" advertising...

by Mariano Tabanera Over the years, we have seen and heard many different attempts at registering different trademarks. In this...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department The potential of Artificial intelligence is enormous. The interconnection of A.I. and art...

by Moeller IP Advisors The Madrid Protocol is an international treaty established to create a centralized system of trademark protection...

Did you resigtered a domain name and you realised that the same name was registered by someone else? Let's see...

What’s the procedure for opposing a trademark registration in Argentina? In this post we are going to clarify how to...

By Moeller IP Advisors Domain Names and Trademark  Do you want to know what to do if someone register a...

By Moeller IP Advisors In today’s competitive economy, business owners need to ensure adequate IP protection for their company by...

By Miriam Silvestri. Patents Engineer. On March 17, 2022, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) has issued specific guidance...

By Miriam Silvestri1, Núria Zanzottera2, and Vanesa Martínez1 1- IP expert engineers, 2- Environmental expert engineer   Global Climate Change...

By Manuel Lobato. Lawyer.   1) I create a new variety of plants, Do I have protection as a breeder?...

By Ivan Blomquist. Lawyer. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., No....

By Marco Euroza. Lawyer.   In Mexico, plant varieties are registered under Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR) and the National Catalogue...

By Marco Antonio García Euroza. Senior Patent Consultant. Extending patent because of the delays incurred In October 2020, the highest...

By Carlos Cavalcanti. Lawyer, Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil. Minister Dias Toffoli, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), suspended...

By Marco Antonio García Euroza. Senior Patent Consultant. An authorized third party by the Mexican Secretariat of Health comprises a...

By Marco Antonio García Euroza. Senior Patent Consultant. During the fourth quarter of last year, the Mexican Supreme Court of...

By Mariano Municoy. Partner, Lawyer, and Head of Moeller’s Regional Legal Department. On December 10th, 2020 the Congress of Uruguay...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published on 7 April 2020...

By Carlos Cavalcanti. Lawyer, Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil.   Brazilian PTO published this Tuesday (04/28), Ordinance No. 166/2020,...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department Patent Index 2019 The European Patent Office (EPO) just published its...

By Moeller IP. Patent Linkage in Mexico The Mexican linkage system refers to the cooperation between the Mexican Institute of...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. Guidelines Patent Examination The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) formally...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. EPO - Applications refused The EPO has published on 27 January...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. European patent EP 2771468 European patent EP 2771468 relates to the...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. Agreement between Mexico and EPO Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) - Reinforced...

By Carlos Cavalcanti. Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil. PPH expansion From December 1, 2019, Brazilian PTO begins the expansion...

By Vivianne Cardoso Banasiak, Client Relationship Manager BR PTO – Fighting the Patent Backlog The year of 2018 was marked...

By José Santacroce. Partner and Head of Patent Department. Changes in Patent Rules The Government of Canada is changing the...

By Vivianne Cardoso Banasiak, Client Relationship Manager Solution against the patent blocklog For years the BR PTO has struggled to reduce...

By Carlos Cavalcanti, Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil Patent Backlog Combat Project Brazilian PTO is initiating the Backlog Combat...

By José Santacroce, Partner and Head of Patent Department IP5 Annual meeting The heads of the five largest patent offices...

By Vivianne Cardoso Banasiak, Client Relationship Manager   On June 18, 2019, the Brazilian Patent Office (BPTO) published in the Industrial...

By Jose Santacroce, Partner & Head of Patent Department   The European Patent Office (EPO), the European Committee of Standardization (CEN)...

By Marta Garcia   Since October 2014, the Chilean National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) has been working as a...

By José Santacroce, Partner & Head of Patent Department   The European Patent Office (EPO) recently published its Annual Report 2018....

By Belen Priore, Patents Paralegal On February 19, the Brazilian PTO issued Official Gazette number 2511, which contains an important communication:...

By José Santacroce, Partner and Head of Patent Department   On 28 February 2019, in its decision T0489/14 (Title of the...

By Marta García On January 8, 2019, the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and CAS, a division of...

By Maria Sol Porro The Criminal Court of the Zipaquirá Circuit has issued the first punishable sentence in Colombia for...

by Marta García On October 2, 2018, a new draft law was sent to the Chilean Congress to update the...

By Maria Belen Priore, Patent Dept.  On January 8th, the Brazilian PTO launched the first edition of the Manual of...

by Marta García New trade agreement  - USMCA On November 30, 2018, a new trade agreement called the United States-Mexico-Canada...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department Case T 1063/18 concerns the appeal by the applicant against the decision of...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department Patent applications in SDV On November 6th 2018, the European Patent Office (EPO)...

by Marta Garcia In September 2018, Maximiliano Santa Cruz, the former Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property of...

By Marta García On November 14, 2018, the Industrial Property Bulletin No. 588 (special issue), published by the Venezuelan PTO...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department On 1 November 2018 the EPO issued the new CII Guidelines, in which...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department On 30 October 2018, the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) in...

by Adrian Gonzalez WIPO GREEN was launched on November 28, 2013 to provide an online marketplace connecting a wide variety...

By Marta Garcia On October 26, 2018, the Uruguayan PTO published Official Notice 5/2018 which establishes a maximum number of...

By Adrian Gonzalez The Open Invention Network (OIN) is a community committed to safeguarding Linux as well as other open...

By Adrian Gonzalez, Patents (BS Mol. Genetics & Biotechnology) Among the key technologies of this century, nanotechnology raises particularly high...

By Moeller IP Advisors Dear Clients and Associates, The Venezuelan Association of Industrial Property Agents (COVAPI) has issued a statement related...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department On the EPO online Official Journal dated May 2018, the IP5 pilot project...

By Marta Garcia Since 2016, the Brazilian PTO (INPI) has been implementing several Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programs with different...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department On April 26, 2018, the United Kingdom announced that it deposited the instruments...

By Marta Garcia Since October 2014, the Chilean National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) has been working as a competent...

By Marta Garcia The European Union (EU) and the four founding members of sub-regional trade bloc Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,...

by Moeller IP Advisors In the prestigious Bloomberg’s 2017 Innovation Index published last year, Mexico failed to rank among the...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department The three levels of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be defined as follows: Artificial...

By Moeller IP Advisors The Potential for Green Technologies Green is certainly an adjective that fits Brazil. Not only because of...

By Moeller IP Advisors A recent report by the WIPO placed Mexico among the first 15 countries for the number...

By Moeller IP Advisors It is very well known that the backlog is probably the main issue affecting the Brazilian...

By Marta Garcia On April 20, 2018, Brazilian “mailbox” patent PI9507594-1 by Alexion Pharmaceutical Inc. protecting the drug Soliris® (eculizumab)...

By Moeller IP Advisors Research and production costs for developing pharmaceuticals are extremely high, especially for biological drugs. Biopharmaceutical companies...

By Moeller IP Brazil, in line with other South American countries, like Mexico or Argentina, does not consider new plant...

By José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department The European Patent Office (EPO) held on 30 May 2018 a conference on...

An intellectual property right is not complete unless its enforcement can be easily and timely executed. This is pivotal for...

by Moeller IP Advisors Brazil is one of the biggest pharmaceutical markets in the world. IMS Health -a pharmaceutical consulting...

By Moeller IP Advisors Stem cells have the potential to treat a wide range of diseases and constitute a key...

Insights by José Santacroce, Head of Patent Department at Moeller IP Right now we are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution,...

By Marta Garcia On November 2017, the Chilean PTO (INAPI) published an update of the patent examination guidelines providing clarifications...

By Moeller IP Advisors According to data from the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society,...

By Marta Garcia Last year, Brazilian Senator Cássio Cunha Lima wrote a draft law amending the IP Law in order...

by Moeller IP Brazil On May 8, 2018, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) published Resolution No. 218, which...

By Moeller IP Advisors On January 11, 2018, Presidential Decree No. 27/2018, which introduces many amendments were made to the...

by Moeller IP Brazil In order to expedite the substantive analysis of patent applications. On January 16, 2018, the Brazilian...

by Moeller IP Advisors Nanotechnology is the manipulation and production of materials and devices on the scale of atoms; through...

by Moeller IP Advisors On March 8, 2018 the project IP Key Latin America was officially launched at the San...