. ARGENTINA | Patents | Argentine Patent Office will apply an “Internal Patent Prosecution Highway” (IPPH) . Starting 15 October 2016 –and by means of Resolution 56 (12 September 2016)-, the Argentine Patent Office (INPI in Spanish) will allow the...
. VENEZUELA | Intellectual Property | Venezuela’s Patent and Trademark Office is not receiving foreign applicants’ prosecution fees . As a result of Citibank decision to close the Venezuelan Government bank accounts for dollar transactions, since September...
. ARGENTINA | Regulatory | Argentina removes presentation of costs structure in “highly complex” medicines . The requirement was removed on 5 September 2016, by means of Joint Resolution 1 of 2016, and was required to pharmaceuticals companies, which...
. USA | Regulatory | FDA issues new regulations on Nutritional Facts Label for Packaged Foods . The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) modified the nutritional facts label guidelines for packaged foods in order to reflect current scientific data and information...
Bibiana Agudelo (Trademarks Area Director) Interview 1. Bibi, you were born and raised in Bogota. What’s it like to return to Colombia after 13 years? I was born and raised in Bogota indeed. I spent most of my childhood in Bogota, although I lived abroad...
