By Mariano Peruzzotti and Valentina Gonzáles Medina. This edition includes a brief comment about Communication “A” 7266 of the Central Bank of Argentina on guidelines for security incidents response and recovery, the creation of the Advisory Committee for the Development and Implementation of Secure Applications and the signature of an Agreement between the Legal and Technical […]
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By Belen Recchini. The Ministry of Health and the National Seeds Institute (INASE, by its initials in Spanish) issued Joint Resolution No. 5/2021 (“Resolution”) authorizing the registration of a national germplasm of Cannabis sativa L. for medicinal use under the National Register of Cultivars (RNC, by its initials in Spanish) and/or the National Register of […]
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By Juan Carlos Ojam and Antonella Balbo. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VITICULTURE We share below the latest legal news related to the viticulture industry in Argentina. Recognition of “Victoria” as a Geographical Indication On May 4, 2021, Resolution 5/2021 (“Resolution 5/2021”) of the National Institute of Viticulture (“NIV”) was published in the Official Gazette. This Resolution provides […]
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By Mariano Peruzzotti and Antonella Balbo. We provide below a brief report on the developments taken place during the last weeks on Fair Trade and Consumer Protection, namely: (i) the one stop shop scheme for consumers’ claims; (ii) labelling oversight; and (iii) the approval of the Code of Good Practices for Wholesale and Retail Distribution […]
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When a country approves a patent, it grants the owner an exclusive right of exploitation for a limited period (20 years in Argentina) for new and highly inventive developments. A great deal has been said about this monopoly and its supposedly disvalued implications to society as a result of the intellectual protection of COVID-19 vaccines. […]
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We congratulate Raquel Flanzbaum for her article “IP law in Latin America: an approach to gender equality in Argentina” for WIPR – World IP Review, which was published on the newsletters: WIPR Bulletin and WIPR’s Influential Women in IP. In this article, she explores how gender diversity is addressed in Argentina. We invite you to read it: https://bit.ly/2OWV3vu
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We share with you Mariano Peruzzotti’s latest article regarding the disclosure of information about individuals vaccinated against COVID-19, published by Diario La Ley. We encourage you to read it! https://lnkd.in/eMZJcRX
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By Diego Montangero. On March 11, 2021, Division 1 of the Federal Court of Appeals in Civil and Commercial Matters in the city of Buenos Aires confirmed the district court’s decision which declared grounded the opposition against trademark application for “FAMILIAS SABORIZADAS” (“FLAVORED FAMILIES”), filed by SOCIÉTÉ DES PRODIUTS NESTLÉ S.A. to distinguish “all the […]
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By Raquel Flanzbaum. On February 24, 2021, the Argentine Congress enacted Law No. 27,614 on the Financing of the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation. The main points of the new law are the following: To increase, over a period of time, the percentage of the GDP allocated to science and technology; To advance […]
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By Mariano Peruzzotti. Over the last months there have been several developments on privacy as we briefly described below: New Data Protection Authority’s inspection proceedings The Argentine Agency of Access to Public Information (“AAAPI”), controlling authority of Personal Data Protection Law No. 25,326 and Do Not Call Registry Law No. 26,951 introduced changes to the […]
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