11-09-2024
La Comisión de Promoción y Defensa de la Competencia (CPDC) resolvió preguntas en torno a los criterios a aplicar para la presentación de concentraciones económicas, teniendo en cuenta las…
"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 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 ...
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 ...
A compulsory licence (CL) is an authorisation granted by a government that allows third parties to produce a patented product or use a patented process without the consent of the patent holder, and wh ...
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 ...
On Friday 11 October, the first workshop on unfair competition was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with experts from both the region and Brazil. Professor Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa coordinated the event.The objective of the workshop, which was attended by judges, academics and litigants, was to discuss the first version of the framework for a comparative study on unfair competition.
The objective of this workshop was to discuss the most relevant aspects for the global governance of DSI and the strategy to be adopted by Latin American countries in international negotiations. Among others, the definition of DSI, repercussions on existing national regulatory frameworks, types of benefits to be shared, triggers, governance and criteria for the distribution of funds, exceptions, compliance, sanctions and repercussions on multilateral mechanisms in other international fora were discussed.
In the framework of the Regional Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright project, a specific workshop on text and data mining (TDM) in the Latin American context was held in Curitiba, Brazil. The aim was to identify copyright challenges arising from these technologies, especially when TDM involves the manipulation of large amounts of protected material. The use of TDM and Artificial Intelligence to extract patterns or generate new content presents a debate between the benefits of innovation and the rights of original creators.
The workshop, held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, originates, in search of new relevant lines of research, from discussions held at the workshop "Regional copyright instrument" previously held in Bogota, Colombia, on 30 November 2023. The main objective of this workshop was to explore the concept of transformative use and its dynamics in legislation and practices in the region.
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.
On 22-23 April, the third workshop on the Regional Patent Law Instrument was held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. This meeting discussed a new version of the international document that started after the IV Conference that took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
La Comisión de Promoción y Defensa de la Competencia (CPDC) resolvió preguntas en torno a los criterios a aplicar para la presentación de concentraciones económicas, teniendo en cuenta las…
La Sala Especializada en Protección al Consumidor (SPC) del Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (Indecopi)señaló que Rappi S.A.C. vulneró…
La Quinta Sala Especializada en lo Contencioso Administrativo Solicitud con Subespecialidad en Temas de mercado de la Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima de la República del Perú solicitó de una…
María Carolina Herrera, una anciana jabonera de Perú, ganó una batalla legal contra la icónica diseñadora de moda Carolina Herrera por el derecho a utilizar su apellido como marca.