In an effort to foster cooperation and harmonisation in the field of intellectual property (IP), trade mark examiners from MERCOSUR and Chile came together to participate in specialised training on three-dimensional trade marks.

The event, ‘Training on the Practice of Trade Mark Examination: 3D Trade Marks’, was held online and was attended by prominent representatives of the IP offices of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

On 12 December 2023, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and the Community Plant Variety Office will host an online workshop about the licensing of plant varieties.

Yesterday, an important virtual meeting was held, which was jointly organised by the EUIPO and the EPO. The meeting focused on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in patent examination. EPO expert Alexander Klenner-Bajaja provided valuable insights as to how AI can revolutionise this field.

Chile will soon host an event on crafts and intellectual property (IP) rights.

The international seminar ‘Adding Value to Handicrafts and Local Products through Intellectual Property Rights’ will take place on 28 November 2023 in Santiago de Chile and on 29 November in Chimbarongo, Chile.

On 18 October 2023, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation (CarIPI) project, the World Intellectual Property Office, and the Registrar of the Companies and Intellectual Property Office of Dominica, held a webinar together on the subject of intellectual property, traditional knowledge and traditional expressions. 

The aim of this activity was to raise intellectual property awareness among public officials and stakeholders in the indigenous and local communities in Dominica.

AL-INVEST Verde IPR – a leader in intellectual property (IP) rights optimisation in Latin America – partners with SEBRAE to co-organise Catalisa 2023. This strategic alliance aims to enhance IP rights in competitiveness and sustainable innovation, focusing especially in MERCOSUR and Chile.

From 27 to 28 November 2023, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation project organised a webinar series of ‘train the trainer’ courses for primary and secondary school teachers from Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Education experts introduced CarIPI’s IP in Education project. The sessions included an overview of materials created by the EUIPO and pedagogical methodologies to educate students on intellectual property.

On 20 November 2023, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation project hosted a hybrid training session to raise awareness of intellectual property rights among SMEs in the Bahamas.

This online event is co-organized by the EUIPO and the European Patent Office (EPO).

This full online event aims to increase the knowledge and capacity of IT experts from the Mercosur and other Latin American Intellectual Property Offices in relation to new cutting-edge technologies, easing the path to knowledge technology transfer from leading IPOs.