The European Union (EU) and the four founding members of sub-regional trade bloc Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) have been negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) for the last 17 years as part of a broader Association Agreement between the two regions. After a pause in the EU-Mercosur negotiations in 2012, these were re-launched in May 2016. Since then, there have been several rounds of negotiations, with the pace picking up in recent [...]

With the growing universe of blockchain based systems and applications, legal questions associated with this technology emerge and require consideration (ideally) before substantial sums are invested. In this blog series related to blockchain, we have covered a number of legal aspects (such as Starting an Initial Token Offering (ITO, also called Initial Coin Offering or ICO) - Things to consider and Blockchain for Patents - Patents for Blockchain) already. This blogpost is about copyright in the blockchain [...]

Amendments to the Industrial Property Law, were published in the Federal Official Gazette on March 13, 2018 and will enter into force on April 27, 2018. The changes are as follows: Industrial Designs Incorporation of concepts related to the novelty required for the registration of an industrial design such as "independent creation" and "significant degree". The validity of the industrial design is now 5 years, renewable for equal periods until reaching a maximum of [...]