It is quite common for INDECOPI (the Peruvian Trademark Office) to deny registrations of trademarks that they consider identical or substantially similar to other previously registered trademarks. This denial means a loss of time for the applicant: between three to four months, but also money, since he has lost the US$ 144.00 that he has […]

Many entrepreneurs do not take the trouble to register their trademark before INDECOPI (the Peruvian Trademark Office) because they think that, since they have been using it for several years, it belongs to them and no one can take it away, which is not necessarily true. The number of entrepreneurs in Peru is so large […]

The third paragraph of article 166 of Decision 486 of the Andean Community states the following: “The use of a trademark in a form different from that in which it was registered only with respect to details or features that do not alter its distinctive character, shall not constitute grounds for cancellation of the registration […]