Newsletter - Latin America IP SME Helpdesk

The Latin America IP SME Helpdesk team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a good start to a successful New Year. We'll be back in January with more IP updates, resources and training events in 2023. Enjoy the holiday season!

A Croatian SME filed a trade mark application to protect its brand “KEKSI” in Bolivia – but it did so without conducting a prior trade mark search. Once the application was published in the Official Gazette of Bolivia, a Bolivian company filed an opposition to this application based on the likelihood of confusion between “KEKSI” and its own prior trade mark “KEKIS”, under which the company commercialised candy and chewing gum...

Counterfeiting is well-known and broadcast in the media due to the volume of seizures of goods and cases brought to justice. In Brazil, this activity affects mostly trade marks, and to a lesser but also relevant extent, it affects industrial designs, as well as other intellectual property rights, including patents. For this reason, the Brazilian procedure to register a trade mark and its importance are specifically detailed below.

Are you planning to refresh your IP knowledge during the holidays break? Remember, our intellectual property trainings are available in the most flexible way: you can join our webinars from any device at any time.

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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.