Written by: María Laura Cristín, Argentine Attorney | Admitted, Santa Fe Bar Association, since 2015 | Advises on trademark registration, intellectual property, and commercial disputes in Argentina Quick answer Registering your trademark with INPI gives you the right to stop someone else from using it, but registration alone does not stop a copycat. If another […]
Category Archives: Intellectual Property
TL;DR: A foreign company cannot file a trademark application in India without appointing an Indian trademark agent or attorney who provides a local address for service, this is a mandatory legal requirement, not a convenience. You then choose between two genuinely different routes, direct national filing or designating India through the Madrid Protocol, and the […]
TL;DR: If a contractor or freelancer you paid to build something, code, a design, a product feature, is now using that same work to compete with you or sell it elsewhere, what you can actually do depends heavily on whether your contract included a proper, specific IP assignment clause. Where it did, you likely have […]
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TL;DR: Trademarks in Argentina are registered with INPI (Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial) under Trademark Law No. 22,362, in a first-to-file system where registration, not use, creates the right. The process runs from clearance search through filing, examination, a one-day publication, and a 30-day opposition window, to registration for a renewable ten-year term. The […]
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May
May
Here is a situation that plays out in startup due diligence rooms more often than anyone in the industry likes to admit. A founder has spent two years building a product. They raised a pre-seed round, grew to fifteen thousand users, got introduced to a Series A investor who liked what they saw, and spent […]
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May
May
Why Most Brands Launch at Legal Risk And How to Avoid That Mistake You have spent weeks coming up with the perfect brand name. The logo looks sharp. The domain is available. You are ready to launch. But here is a question most founders forget to ask: Has someone else already claimed that name legally? […]
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Apr
Apr
Why Influencers Lose Content Ownership Without Realising It There is a belief that runs through creator culture, quietly and persistently, that you own what you make. You thought of the concept. You showed up, shot the content, edited it, and posted it. Of course it is yours. Brand deal contracts say otherwise. And they […]
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Mar
Mar
Picture this: You run a clothing brand. You built it over three years, designed the logo yourself, printed it on every tag, posted it on Instagram hundreds of times, and built a small but loyal following around it. Then one morning a customer messages you: “Isn’t this yours?” It is a Mumbai based vendor’s Instagram […]
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Mar
Mar
TL;DR: An IP assignment agreement transfers ownership of intellectual property, code, designs, content, inventions, from the person or entity who created it to another party, permanently and completely. Without one, the creator, not the business paying for the work, may legally own it. This is one of the most consistently damaging gaps discovered during investor […]
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Feb
Feb
You’ve poured your heart into building your brand’s identity, the name, the logo, it’s everything. But what if someone else could legally use a similar name, confusing your customers and hijacking your reputation? A federal trademark is your shield. Getting that little ® symbol next to your name isn’t just for big corporations. The core […]