Intellectual Rights 20

This essay seeks to generate discussion about global warming as a result of the disproportionate relationship between the generation of pollutants and global capacity to absorb them, and how technology transfer and intellectual property, can generate conditions to counteract the problems mentioned, looking for a fair balance between respect and appreciation to the creation of human talent and the need of improve environmental conditions. The con tributions to the state of the art, which serve to mitigate the effects of global warming, deserve protection under the intellectual property regime, and will be called for the purpose of this work “environmentally technologies friendly, or EST, for its acronym in English.

This article explains a particular view of what the ITC is and the different scenarios that may involve issues related to intellectual property matters and how can it affect a region such as Latin America. This article is centered in Section 337 which is a contentious instance which mostly involves issues related to intelectual and industrial property matters. In this article the reader will clearly understand the contentious procedure as well as all the legal aspects involved in this process from its beginning to its conclusion.

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In this article, we address the issue of biodiversity in all its aspects, dwelling upon the Amazon rainforest, traditional knowledge, environmental resources, laws, agreements and covenants; the responsibles and specialized agencies, the ECO Rio, the MADIDI Park and access to the genetic heritage.

This article aims to show the description of the applicable legal rules and of the case-law relating to the evaluation of trademarks coexistence agreements by the Peruvian trademark authority. In this regard, it should be noted the recent resolution of mandatory compliance issued by INDECOPI which establishes the minimal conditions that the coexistence agreement shall meet in order to be accepted by the Authority.

The contracts in the entertainment world are complex as lawyers engaged in this work must master not one but several areas of law: contract law, labor law and intellectual property in all its aspects: copyright, right to publicity and freedom of expression.

There is an incipient regulation of the assets related with intellectual property in Paraguayan universities so there is an urgent need to encourage them. One mechanism for doing so is to ensure researchers benefits for their effort, so that they have the moral satisfaction in recognition of their work and find in it an adequate compensation. This requires proper legal regulation of intellectual property rights in universities, complementing the provisions of various laws on the subject. Considering the current state of protection of creators in universities, particularly in the countries of the region, the author studies the current situation of the regulation of intellectual property applicable to Paraguayan universities.