IP Collaborative Projects PROSUR Last Updates

Posted by Juanes Garza on December 19th, 2018

The aim of a Steering Committee Meeting of the regional collaborative project PROSUR was to improve the future goals. The committee was to discuss teh future improvements and revise the previous goals. Patent trademark atorney Latin America took a place in this committee. As the memeber of PROSUR, they highlight the consolidation of the online platform. The name of it is e-PEC. It was for the collaborative patent examination. In addition, the set-up of the trademark and paent search engine became the things to discuss either. The database of the nine PROSUR members became the main things to consider.

Patent trademark attorney Latin America implemented to the PROSUR community Trademark. It was discussed with some members of PROSUR like Columbia. Analization of a sub regional trademark protection was also discussed, but there was an exception to some countries than Columbia like Ecuador. This country supported the initiative of a harmonization protocol. It has a task to develop it too for each member to adopt it. Other countries are trying to join like Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Chole, Peru, Uruguay, and Suriname.  All of them started to work on the Inter-American Develpment Bank with its project named PROSUR.

PROSUR aimed was to consolidate the process of technical and institutional cooperation. According to its local law, this project was to keep each country’s sovereignty. In addition, the cooperation was between the PTOs of the South American region. The project was to focus on the non binding exchange of patent examination result specific. Well, this is the specific step to handle. Patent trademark attorney Latin America which one of them is Moeller IP attended the World Intellectual Property Office in March 2011 and they expressed ther support to PROSUR acting. PROSUR was a specialized cooperating agency of the project. The online platform by WIPO named WIPO CASE was to share reports and information about the patent search and examination. However, it is only for the patent offices.

PROSUR project on its second phase on June, 2014. It has main objective to implement the service. it had projects with PTOs to optimize the patent examination process. On the other hand, the aim was to develop an institutional framework and to improve the dissemination of technological information. All of them are very important in the public domain. It was not a bad thing to know this great collaboraton between WIPO and PTOs. The fact of their collaboration brought the new hope for the IP owners and lawyers.

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