GUATEMALA
DATA PRIVACY: AM I TREATING MY CLIENTS' PERSONAL DATA CORRECTLY?
We are at a time where big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have positioned the information that can be obtained from consumers and customers as one of the most valuable assets a company can have...
  EL SALVADOR
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AS A GUARANTEE
The Movable Assets Guarantee Law in its article 36 provides, that it can be offered as a guarantee the rights that are held over a distinctive signs (trademark, trade names, signs or expressions of advertising), invention patents, utility models, industrial designs and copyrights...
  HONDURAS
REFORMS TO THE GENERAL MINING LAW APPROVED
The National Congress approved the Reform to the General Mining Law, through Legislative Decree No. 109-2019. The General Mining Law aims to regulate mining and metallurgical activities in the country...
  NICARAGUA
REGULATIONS FOR LAWYERS AND PUBLIC NOTARIES TO SUBMIT REPORTS FOR THE PREVENTION, DETECTION AND REPORTING OF ACTIVITIES POTENTIALLY LINKED TO MONEY LAUNDERING
The Supreme Court of Justice, through the National Council of Administration and Judicial Career, approved Resolution No. 451, "Regulations for the Prevention, Detection and Reporting of Activities Potentially Linked to Money Laundering...
 

COSTA RICA
A CHANGE OF CRITERION ON EXTENSIONS OF PATENT DEADLINES
The Registry of Industrial Property of Costa Rica has changed, without prior notice, its criterion on the granting of extensions of a deadline in patent procedures, according to new resolutions notified to the applicants of patent applications...

 

PANAMA
PANAMA RULES THE ACCESS AND CONTROL OF BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC RESOURCES
By Executive Decree No. 19 of May 26, 2019, Law No. 57 of October 4, 2012 was regulated, which makes Panama a signatory to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Participation in Benefits Derived from its use - with the exception of the human species...

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