Arquivos para 2016

In the framework of the XIX Work Sessions and Administrative Council, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ASIPI and the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) of Paraguay signed a Collaboration Agreement.

Maria del Pilar Troncoso, President of ASIPI, and Maria Gabriela Talavera, Director of Intellectual Property Rights who attended on behalf of Dr. Gladys Bareiro de Modica, Judge of the CSJ, met to carry out the formal signing ceremony.

This agreement assumes that both entities are committed to mutual cooperation in the field of Intellectual Property for the exchange of academic, technical and scientific information, to implement training courses, to hold seminars, workshops and round tables, participation in events, among other initiatives in favor of the IP community.

Currently, these parties are in talks for the first work to be done together in 2017.

During the XIX Work Sessions and Administrative Council, Maria del Pilar Troncoso, President of ASIPI, signed on behalf of the Association, three Collaboration Agreements with the National Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City, the Arbitration Center of Mexico and the International Chamber of Commerce of Mexico.

On the other hand, an Interinstitutional Cooperation Agreement with the Arbitration and Medication Center of Santiago, Chile, was also signed.

These four collaboration agreements were signed as part of an initiative of the Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration Working Committee, seeking to expand academic and technical activities in this area in relation to Intellectual Property.

On December 15 took place the Press Conference and Round Table in Peru regarding the Trademark Impact Study. Both activities went very well and were atended by three of the most relevant Peruvian communication media.

In the Press Conference there were speeches from the Director of the Peruvian Trademark Office, from INTA (Etienne Sanz de Acedo) and a last speech from ASIPI (Jaime Durand). There were some questions from the audience and reporters regarding the wage premium in trademark intensive industries.

The round table was a discussion about the report itself and the uses it might have.  All agreed in the importance of spreading the Study.

On December 14, a Press Conference and a Roundtable were held for the launch of the ASIPI-INTA impact study entitled “Trademarks in Latin America”. This event was held in the Chamber of Commerce of Panama and was attended by important members of the Press.

During the Press Conference, the Director of the General Directorate of Industrial Property of Panama gave the local press a brief introduction to the history of the trademarks followed by a series of general data related to Panama's trademark statistics. The representatives of ASIPI and INTA then spoke about the work done jointly by the Associations in relation to the impact of the intensive trademarks sectors. The representatives of ASIPI and INTA also explained to the Press about the final objective of the study with a special emphasis on methodology and conclusions.

After the Press Conference, there were questions from the reporters.  Their main concern was the issue of piracy and the opinion of ASIPI and INTA on the results of the study regarding the importance of trademarks to fight counterfeiting taking into consideration that Panama is a transit country for international merchandise.

The Roundtable was then composed by members of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries of Panama, the Chamber of Commerce of Panama, the General Directorate of Industrial Property of Panama, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Panama and the Department of Intellectual Property of Customs between which were exchanged reflections of the study and questions arose on the methodology. It is important to emphasize that the collective conclusion of the participants was positive and consider it very important to protect and encourage the registration of trademarks as they are a main ingredient of the economy.

On December 13, 2016,was launched the ASIPI/INTA study on “The Trademarks in Latin America, economic impact in five countries of the region” at te headquarters of the National Chamber of Commerce of Chile.

The event began with a press conference in which the President of the National Chamber of Commerce of Chile Ricardo Mewes, the National Director of INAPI Maximiliano Santa Cruz, the Director of INTA Etienne Sanz de Acedo and the Vice President 2 of ASIPI Rafael Covarrubias, served as speakers.

Following the press conference, a closed Round Table was held, attended by high officials from INAPI, Customs, officials and members of the Chamber of Commerce, ASIPI Delegate of Chile Noelle Jeanneret, Etienne Sanz de Acedo for INTA, Francisco Silva member of Project Team and Rafael Covarrubias for ASIPI.