How and why to protect plants of cannabis by Plant Breeder’s Rights in Latin America?
By Mariano Municoy. Head Regional Legal Department.
Medicinal and recreational uses of cannabis are generating increasing attention for multiple actors including researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, social…
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At a global level, there are two major models of personal data protection that contain well- differentiated characteristics and particularities: on the one hand we find the Anglo-Saxon archetype and,…
By Marco García Euroza. Lawyer.
In May 2021 US Trade Representative issued a statement about their position on waiving intellectual property protections in favor of ending the pandemic and their desire to negotiate before the WTO to make it…
Personal data represents an accumulation of information that makes it possible to identify – in real or potential way – a natural person and associate it with that data. They can be of all kinds:…
On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., No. 20-440, 2021 U.S. LEXIS 3563 (June 29, 2021) that inventors may challenge the validity of patents they assigned under…
By Marco Garcia Euroza. Lawyer.
On June 28, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court canceled the prohibition stated in the Mexican General Health Law related to the consumption and recreative use of cannabis and THC. The cancelation is part of…
In Mexico, plant varieties are registered under Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR) and the National Catalogue of Vegetal Varieties (NCVV). PBRs grant exclusive rights over the plant variety and propagating material for the production, distribution, or…
By Vivianne Cardoso Banasiak, Client Relationship Manager
BR PTO – Fighting the Patent Backlog
The year of 2018 was marked by harsh criticism on how the Government was dealing with the Brazilian Patent Office’s (BR PTO) backlog problem. However, since January…
By INPI Argentina
Moeller IP Advisors kindly informs to clients and friends that on May 27, 2019, the INPI Resolution No. 123/2019 was published, clarifying the recent modifications of our Trademark Law and its regulatory decree.
By this Resolution, the…
By Marta Garcia, Patent Technical Advisor
On May 22, 2019, the Brazilian Senate approved the Draft Legislative Decree No. 98/2019, which allows Brazil adhesion to the Madrid Protocol, the International Trademark System. The system is expected to start operating…
