Sofia Covarrubias commented for World Trademark Review in “We are not sure that the time is right: professionals are questioning Chile’s decision to approve the Madrid Protocol”.
“Not sure it is the right time”: practitioners question Chile’s move to approve the Madrid Protocol Chile has set in motion the process to approve the Madrid Protocol in Congress Slowness to implement modernisations of the Trademark Law a concern locally IP office...
Use of Ivermectin in COVID-19
The current SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) associated to the pandemic is an international public health emergency and there is currently no adequate treatment to fight it. Many laboratories and research groups are working hard to find potential vaccines or drugs to...
Why is it important to register a trademark before offering products on social media?
During the last six months, because of the economic crisis, there has been a proliferation of very original ventures, which have used platforms such as Instagram and Facebook to reach a much wider audience. This has also coincided with a notable increase in trademark...
Expiration or Cancellation for Non-Use of Marks: A wait that has taken more than seven years
Every day, more entrepreneurs have realized the importance and value that trademarks give to their company, to the products and/or services they market with it. This is a favorable situation, but it has one problem: we have less and less imagination to invent a sign...
Partner Arturo Covarrubias was an invited speaker at the conference “International Trademark Protection for US Trademark Owners in Chile
About our Speaker: Arturo Covarrubias is the managing partner at Covarrubias & Cía. He is an expert in Industrial Property and manages his firm's Department of Litigation. His practice areas are industrial property and litigation related to industrial...
Covarrubias & Cía. is recognized by leaders league
The French agency Leaders League, dedicated to comparing the legal and financial markets in 40 countries – 8 of which are in Latin America – published its Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property ranking on Friday May 19th during the annual meeting of INTA...
Copyright: New developments at fondos de cultura 2018
Rules of the competition were published last May 18th so that interested parties may participate –starting May 31st.— for the Fondos de Cultura 2018 (Cultural Fund) at the following link. Among the new developments of this version worth mentioning are the creation of...
Information technologies: Uber, App or mean of transport?
Image: Fernando Oda In accordance with an announcement (the expert legal opinion?) by Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued Thursday May 11th., Uber is a transportation company and not a technological platform. This supposes a major...
Trademarks: Genesis by Hyundai
On May 8th, the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) reconsidered its fundamental objections against the application of the trademark GENESIS based on the existence of other “GENESIS” marks in class 7, and accepted to grant registration of the trademark...
TRADEMARKS: PUMA LODGE BY NOI HOTELS
Last May 4th, Chile’s Industrial Property Tribunal decided to grant registration of the trademark “NOI PUMA LODGE”, despite opposition presented by PUMA S.A., confirming the ruling handed down by the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) to grant the...