Category: Articles

By Belen Recchini. On July 8, 2021, the Argentine Senate passed the Bill that sets the regulatory framework for the production and supply chains of the cannabis plant, its seeds, and its derived products for industrial and medical use, including scientific investigation to satisfy the local market and generate exports, thus promoting the national development of […]

BEYOND DEL FIRMAMENTO[1]. By Diego Montangero. Trademarks refer to specific goods and services. This principle of specialty restricts the scope of each trademark registration or application. However, goods and services may go beyond their specification: two trademarks can be confusingly similar even if they do not identify the same goods or services. Therefore, in cases of […]

By Mariano Peruzzotti and Antonella Balbo. On July 8, 2021, Resolution 696/2021 (“the Resolution”) of the Secretariat of Domestic Trade was published in the Official Gazette. The Resolution complements the Supermarket Shelf Law No. 27,545 (“LG Law”, for its acronym in Spanish) providing specifications for wholesale establishments. The Resolution provides certain guidance on provisions of the LG Law, […]

By Raquel Flanzbaum and Antonella Balbo. On July 14, 2021, the Argentine government issued Decree 460/2021 (“the Decree”), establishing “ARGENTINA’S NATIONAL BRAND” as an Official Brand to formalize and standardize the image of the country in the world. The key innovations of the Decree are as follows: The update of the design of the previous “ARGENTINA’S […]

By Raquel Flanzbaum and  Santiago Durañona. EUIPO declares invalid a figurative trademark related to Banksy’s work “Laugh Now”. Reasons of the decision and comments from an Argentinean law perspective On 18 May 2021, the Cancellation Division of the European Intellectual Property Office (“EUIPO”), in decision No. 39873 C, determined that the registered trademark No. 17 981 […]

By Mariano Peruzzotti and  Valentina González Medina. The Agency for Access to Public Information (hereinafter, “AAPI”), controlling authority of Personal Data Protection Law No. 25,326 (“PDPL”), initiated an investigation on security incident affecting the database associated to the site created for obtaining the travel authorizations within the Province of San Juan. This security incident exposed individual’s […]

Repeat trademarks: a comparative analysis We share with you Raquel Flanzbaum’s latest article (page 8) regarding repeat trademarks and a comparative analysis, published by Diario La Ley.We encourage you to read it!

By Mariano Peruzzotti and Valentina González Medina. On a split decision the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice (“SC”) recently ruled a new case on civil liability of Internet search engines. Following the criteria of the leading cases “Rodríguez” and “Gimbutas”, the SC understood that search engines are not liable for third-party generated content since it constitutes the legitimate […]