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 ...

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 ...

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  ...