Newsletter - Latin America IP SME Helpdesk

As part of our dissemination efforts during World IP Day 2022, we have published a special blog post with some tips on how young EU entrepreneurs can protect their IP in Latin America and throughout the world. Check it out!

This webinar will provide European SMEs with an overview of the relevance of each IPR for the sector (including trade marks, patents, industrial design, copyright, plant varieties and more) as well as software protection and other relevant IP clauses, with special focus on the most remarkable particularities of Africa, China, India, Latin America and South-East Asia.

Join us in the webinar organised by Global Cosmetics Cluster-Europe and the Latin America IP SME Helpdesk to learn about the peculiarities of Mexico in terms of Intellectual Property as well as how to make a lucrative business tool out of this throughout the process (from creation to sale, through production and distribution).

To help European SMEs avoid this kind of problems, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with the Latin America IP SME Helpdesk are organising a webinar on domain names in which you will find out about the most recurrent bad practices (e.g. typosquatting and other frauds), as well as how to fight and prevent them.

This seminar is a great opportunity for all young innovators, especially women, who wish to translate their ideas into valuable products and services distributed into the market so as to learn how they can use the IP system to build a strong business, protect their innovations and turn them into bankable IP assets.

Argentina, with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) criteria, has just passed a new Law establishing the incorporation of warnings on the front-of-package of containers and regulating the marketing, promotion, sponsorship, and the offer of products with excess sugars, fats, and sodium in schools. The new standard establishes the inclusion of black octagons with white borders and letters that provide warnings about excess sugars, total fats, saturated fats, sodium, and calories.

EUIPO and EUROPOL have just jointly produced a new report on the "Intellectual property crime threat assessment 2022". This report casts new light on the scope, magnitude and trends in counterfeiting and piracy in the EU. According to the report, the majority of counterfeit goods come from Turkey or China. Notwithstanding that, some countries in Latin America are also mentioned within the top territories of the provenance of counterfeit goods entering the EU, e.g. Argentina (toy sector) and Panama (food and beverage sector).

The Helpline service provides first-line assistance on Intellectual Property protection and IP rights enforcement in Latin America. All questions sent through this service will receive a tailor-made answer by our IP experts or it will be signposted to appropriate organisations within no more than 3 working days.