09-10-2025
El Juzgado Civil y Comercial Federal I reafirma la validez de las Pautas de Patentabilidad farmacéutica, consolidando una política pública equilibrada entre innovación tecnológica, salud pública y…
"Smart IP for Latin America" is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, focused on examining the legal and regulatory framework of intellectual property and competition law in Latin America to provide evidence-based and impartial policy advise.
"Smart IP for Latin America" is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, focused on examining the legal and regulatory framework of intellectual property and competition law in Latin America to provide evidence-based and impartial policy advise.
Latin America can address the environmental and health risks of microplastics through stronger legal frameworks. Effective regulation is key to tackling pollution, protecting public health, and foster ...
Latin America’s legal and IP frameworks can better support upcycling by removing regulatory barriers, encouraging innovation, and promoting inclusive, resource-efficient entrepreneurship across divers ...
Exploring how Latin American legal systems can better address greenwashing by strengthening unfair competition rules and enforcement. Clearer legal standards, institutional coordination, and regulator ...
Unlocking Latin America’s Hydrogen Future: Developing strategic intelligence and regulatory proposals to map patents, address competition risks, and promote innovation, fair access, and affordable ene ...
Latin America can promote the use of bio-based agricultural inputs by addressing regulatory gaps, improving national capacities, and supporting greener, more resilient farming through clear, effective ...
Transformative uses represent a novel form of creative expression that is emerging within digital contexts. Advances in technology have expanded the need and scope for transforming protected works, in ...
The instrument can be seen as a follow-up to the Patent Declaration of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition as it seeks to standardise a large part of its provisions. The Instrument ...
There is a profuse academic production on exceptions and limitations to copyright, especially in developed countries. Different approaches and interests result in a varied offer when investigating the ...
Undisclosed information or trade secrets are a category of intellectual property which regards any confidential commercial or industrial information that confers a competitive advantage to a company. ...
There is a capacity for innovation in sustainable technologies in Latin America, given its rich natural and human resources. Some of the new technologies will play a strategic role in solving fundamen ...
Latin American countries face social and economic challenges that demand specific and tailored approaches. In addition, they also have to deal with important global issues such as climate change. Amon ...
Collective management organizations (CMOs) play a fundamental role in promoting the creation of artistic works. For that reason, the efficient and transparent management of authors' rights is a crucia ...
Technology is a vital factor in economic development, and it spreads in different ways, one of which is as part of international trade and foreign direct investment, leading to an increasing economic ...
Origin-based production, including manufacturing, handicraft, and especially food production in Latin American countries is essential to their economies. In particular, to regional economies of small ...
As a framework regulation for innovation markets, the patent system needs to be tailored to both the innovation process it is supposed to serve and the competitive environment, within which it must op ...
Global Nutrition: Bio-inputs, innovation and sustainable agricultural practices.
7 May 2025. Medellin, Colombia.
The VI Annual Conference of the SIPLA Initiative continued its analysis of global nutrition issues, focusing this time on bio-inputs as a possible solution for sustainable and innovative food production. The potential and technical challenges of bio-inputs, their production and use in Latin America, relevant regulatory frameworks, and the impact of intellectual property and regional integration on agricultural and innovation processes related to these technologies were discussed.
Global Nutrition: Towards a smart production system.
The 5th Annual Conference of the SIPLA 2024 Initiative has focused on the incorporation of new technologies in food production, with the aim of promoting a paradigm shift towards more efficient production systems to favour global nutrition. Emerging technologies in smart agriculture and their regulatory challenges were addressed through an interdisciplinary perspective.
What are the challenges and the appropriate regulatory frameworks to promote technology transfer and regional innovation in the sectors of renewable energies in Latin American countries? In view of the global importance of developing the region's great potential for the production of renewable energies in an economically sustainable manner, the IV Annual Conference of the Smart IP Initiative for Latin America (SIPLA) sought to answer these questions in debates between academics, regulation specialists and market players.
The third annual conference of the Initiative took place 16 March 2022, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT).
Are there enough incentives to innovate in sustainable technologies?
Programme for the 2022 Annual Conference
The second annual conference of the Initiative took place from 3 to 5 April 2019, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. It was organized and hosted in collaboration with the Universidad de los Andes.
El Juzgado Civil y Comercial Federal I reafirma la validez de las Pautas de Patentabilidad farmacéutica, consolidando una política pública equilibrada entre innovación tecnológica, salud pública y…
El Tribunal Superior de Bogotá confirmó la sentencia absolutoria de la Dirección Nacional de Derecho de Autor al encontrar que el libro “No eres nadie Bernabé” no fue reproducido, transformado ni…
La reciente sentencia en México aborda un amparo relacionado con la generación de avatares mediante inteligencia artificial, delimitando el alcance de la protección autoral y los criterios de…
El Tribunal Administrativo de Cundinamarca decretó una medida cautelar consistente en la suspensión provisional del registro de la marca “Panelada” por apropiarse de expresiones culturales con fines…