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On 3 April 2019 Decree 242/2019 was passed by the Argentine Executive. Decree 242/2019 regulates a large number of provisions of the Trademark Law, which was amended in 2018, and at the same time repeals the previous regulations issued in 1981. The new regulations will come into force on June 3. They introduce the following changes, among others.

The Executive Power has regulated the amendments to the Argentine Trademark Law (22362) by Executive Order 242/2019, and, at the same time, has repealed the former 1981 regulations.

Trademark “El Eternauta” The Supreme Court of Justice issued on July 10, 2018 a ruling declaring the nullity of the trademark EL ETERNAUTA and EL ETERNAUTA & design owned by Ediciones Record, which enables the authors’ heirs to register identical trademarks in their names. The play EL ETERNAUTA is an Argentinian serialized [...]

The purpose of this article is to analyze the current status of legislation regarding front-of-package food labeling. It is a complex and varied matter, with different types of legislative solutions throughout the region.

A country like Argentina, which has an important role in the sector in terms of production and generation of new technologies, cannot remain indifferent to the recognition of the intellectual property.

A recent ruling of the Federal Courts of Appela has once again brought to discussion whether it is legal or not to use others’ trademarks as keywords on Internet advertising.

On July 25th 2018 the Official Gazette published Resolution N° 47 issued by the Agency of Access to Public Information (AAPI), which approved new security measures for the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of the information that contains personal data during the whole process, from its recollection to its destruction.

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through – Domains & Domain Names 2018 (Published: May 2018).

The Trademark Office has issued the implementing rules for the new opposition system.

Matias Noetinger, N&A partner -and as a representative of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad Intelectual, ASIPI)- attended the workshop entitled "Economic Impact of Intellectual Property" and the installation of the Inter-institutional Roundtable on Enforcement of Intellectual [...]

Matias Noetinger, N & A partner, participated as a representative of the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad Intelectual ASIPI) of the "3rd Forum on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights" held in the city of Montevideo, on April 19 and 20 of 2018.

Our patent team, represented by Fernando Noetinger, Mariana Bullrich and Martin Re, were pleased to be part of the BIO Meeting in Boston this year.

Being represented by Miguel Armando, Matias F. Noetinger and Pablo T. Armando, they enjoyed their meetings with clients, colleagues and friends from the IP world.

A Presidential Decree published on January 11, 2018, has introduced procedural changes regarding patents, trademarks and designs applications and registrations. As a consequence, laws 24481 (patents and utility models), 6673/63 (industrial designs) and 22362 (trademarks) are amended.