SIPLA

Projects

PATENTS, SUSTAINABILITY, PLANNED PROJECTS

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 ...

COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARKS, SUSTAINABILITY, PLANNED PROJECTS

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 ...

COMPETITION, TRADEMARKS, TRADE, SUSTAINABILITY, PLANNED PROJECTS

Exploring how Latin American legal systems can better address greenwashing by strengthening unfair competition rules and enforcement. Clearer legal standards, institutional coordination, and regulator ...

PATENTS, COMPETITION, SUSTAINABILITY, PLANNED PROJECTS

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 ...

PATENTS, SUSTAINABILITY, PLANNED PROJECTS

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 ...

COPYRIGHT, ONGOING PROJECTS

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 ...

PATENTS, COMPETITION, ONGOING PROJECTS

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 ...

COPYRIGHT, ONGOING PROJECTS

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 ...

PATENTS, TRADE SECRETS, ONGOING PROJECTS

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.  ...

PATENTS, COMPETITION, SUSTAINABILITY, ONGOING PROJECTS

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 ...

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS, TRADEMARKS, ONGOING PROJECTS

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 ...

COPYRIGHT, COMPLETED PROJECTS

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 ...

PATENTS, COMPLETED PROJECTS

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  ...

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS, TRADEMARKS, COMPLETED PROJECTS

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  ...

PATENTS, COMPLETED PROJECTS

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 ...

Events

CONFERENCE
13-05-2026 - 13-05-2026

‘Towards a sustainable hydrogen market in Latin America’.

Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception. Concepción, Chile - 13 May 2026

 

In 2026, the VII SIPLA Conference will focus on hydrogen—and in particular green hydrogen produced from renewable sources—as one of the region's main energy commitments.

CONFERENCE
07-05-2025 - 07-05-2025

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.

CONFERENCE
24-04-2024 - 24-04-2024 / Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.

CONFERENCE
26-04-2023 / São Paulo, Brasil

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.

 

CONFERENCE
16-03-2022 / Buenos Aires, Argentina

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).

EVENTS, CONFERENCE
16-03-2022

Are there enough incentives to innovate in sustainable technologies?

Programme for the 2022 Annual Conference

 

Newest Publications



News

03-03-2026

La Cámara de Apelaciones en lo Civil y Comercial de Segunda Nominación de Córdoba desestimó la apelación del demandado y mantuvo la condena por infracción a la Ley 11.723 por reproducción no…


26-02-2026

El Pleno de la SCJN validó el artículo 258, fracción IV, de la LFPPI, que permite anular registros marcarios otorgados indebidamente por error de la autoridad. La Corte subrayó que la nulidad…


16-02-2026

La Sala Civil de Decisión del Tribunal Superior de Bogotá declaró configurada la infracción de una patente relativa a un procedimiento de producción, ordenando medidas correctivas y de cesación,…


13-02-2026

La Sala de Casación Civil, Agraria y Rural de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia, mediante la Providencia AC739-2026, definió el estándar de conducta exigible a los profesionales que emplean…