Newsletter - Latin America IP SME Helpdesk

In this webinar, organised by the Faculty of Business of Kaunas College, together with the Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts and the Enterprise Europe Network, you will find out which are the main IP barriers and IP tips when doing business in Latin America.

This infographic provides you with the basics regarding trade marks: definition, reasons to register your distinctive signs or how to register your brand. This is only some of the information you will find in this infographic.

We provide you with a user-friendly overview of everything you must know about copyright: From understanding the basic concept of copyright to why, when, where and how to protect creations in Latin American countries.

Do you have a business idea? Would you like to protect your artistic creations? Check out this story about Paul, a furniture designer, and see how you can benefit from his experience with the Latin America IP SME Helpdesk.

Within a difference of three days only, the European Commission and the US Trade Representative have published their Report on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in third countries, as well as the 2021 Special 301 Report, respectively. While the nature of both documents is similar, the conclusions reached are not necessarily the same considering EU and US priorities and interests do not always coincide, neither do the consequences of being included in one or the other – as a matter of general trade policy in the EU and US.

The Congress of Colombia has approved the Law 2080 (January 25, 2021), reforming the Colombian Administrative Procedural Code, involving industrial property. What are the main changes affecting Colombian industrial property?

Since last November 2020, the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property in Mexico came into force and changed the rules for filing voluntary divisional applications. Under the new rules, voluntary divisional applications are not accepted unless the first Mexican patent application is still pending.

The European cosmetics industry is represented by a European cosmetics cluster, Global Cosmetics Cluster-Europe, and focuses on a common strategy to boost the internationalisation of SMEs in the cosmetic industry.

Funded by the European Commission, the objective of the ENRICH in LAC project is to encourage the cooperation between Europe and Latin America among regarding their scientific and technological agents and to foster their competitiveness, as well as to contribute to tackling global challenges.

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