WORKSHOP TO SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS IN THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: PROTECTION OF TRADEMARKS AND PATENTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (MSMES)
Guatemala City, Guatemala. June  07 to 09, 2017 . Clarion Suites Guatemala Hotel. 14 Calle 3-08, Zona 10, Guatemala 01010..

AGENDA

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

 

Morning 

 

8:30 – 9:00 

INSCRIPCIONES Y REGISTRO

9:00 – 9:15

OPENING SESSION 

  • Javier Gordon Ruiz, Director (a.i.) of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)
  • Ana Karina Calderón Rodríguez, Representative of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property
  • Mr Ezrra Orozco, Vice-Minister for Development of MSMEs of the Ministry of Economy (MINECO) of Guatemala

9:15 – 9:45

INTRODUCTORY SESSION
La importancia del emprendimiento.(The importance of Entrepreneurship). Mr Ezrra Orozco, Vice-Minister for Development of MSMEs of the Ministry of Economy (MINECO) of Guatemala

9:45 – 10:00

Presentation of methodology of the workshop and facilitators:
Guía del taller (Guide to the Workshop) Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property

10:00 – 10:30

MODULE 1 
Introducción a la Propiedad Intelectual (Introduction to Intellectual Property) 
Trainer: Ana Karina Calderón Rodríguez

What is intellectual property?

Division of intellectual property:

Industrial property

Copyright and related rights

Importance of intellectual property for MSMEs

How to use intellectual property to increase value of MSMEs?

What is the value of intellectual property assets?

Why is intellectual property important for MSMEs?

 

10:30 – 10:45

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 11:45

Industrial property 
Trainer: María Isabel Saravia

What are trademarks?

How to choose your trademark?

Trademark search

Why do trademarks allow you to export products?

 

11:45 – 12:30 

Geographical indications, collective marks and certification marks
Trainer: Ivón Hernández

What are collective marks?

What are certification marks?

What are geographical indications?

How can an MSME use these distinctive signs to distinguish its products or services?

 

12:30 – 2:00

FREE TIME FOR LUNCH

 



Afternoon

 

 

2:00 – 3:00

Industrial designs
Trainers: Gabriela Gándara and Cristina Umaña

What are industrial designs?

How can industrial designs benefit an MSME?

How to protect an industrial design?

 

3:00 – 4:00

Patents
Trainers: Gabriela Gándara and Cristina Umaña

What is a patent?

What is a utility model?

How can patents or utility models serve MSMEs?

What does an MSME need to protect a patent or a utility model?

Reasons for patenting an invention

What happens if inventions are not patented?

How to use patent information?

When should an MSME decide whether it protects an invention or an innovation?

 

4:00 – 4:15

COFFEE BREAK

4:15 – 5:15

Industrial secrets
Trainer: Luis Pablo Cobar

What are industrial secrets?

How can industrial secrets serve MSMEs?

How to protect industrial secrets of your MSME?

Patent or industrial secret?

What precautionary measures should be taken to protect an industrial secret?

 

 

Thursday, 8 June 2017

 

Morning

 

8:30 – 9:30

MODULE 2
Copyright

Trainer: Alejandro del Valle

What is copyright?

How to use copyright if you are a user

How to use copyright if you are an owner

What do I need to protect copyright?

 

9:30 – 10:30

Related rights and collective management organizations
Trainer: Verónica Ponce

What is a related right?

What categories do related rights include?

What are collective management organizations?

 

10:30 – 10:45

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 12:30 

Contracts
Trainer: Andrés Wyld

Trademark and franchise license agreements

Patent licensing

Copyright licensing

Technology transfer

 

12:30 – 2:00

FREE TIME FOR LUNCH

Afternoon

 

  

2:00 – 3:00

Protection of intellectual property rights
Trainer: Gustavo Noyola

Registration of trademarks

Registration of patents and industrial designs

Registration of copyright

Registration abroad

Principle of territoriality

Exhaustion of rights and parallel imports

 

3:00 – 4:00

Intellectual property strategy for MSMEs
Trainer: Ana Karina Calderón

What should an intellectual property strategy contain?

How to develop an intellectual property strategy?

Management of intellectual property rights

How can an intellectual property strategy serve me?

Financing

Investment

Business plan

 

4:00 – 4:15

COFFEE BREAK

4:15 – 5:15

Defense of intellectual property rights
Trainer: Enrique Moller

How to enforce intellectual property rights of MSMEs?

Who must defend intellectual property rights?

Common situations faced by MSMEs in the field of intellectual property protection

Unfair competition, counterfeiting and piracy

What procedures can be used?

Arbitration

Mediation

 

 

Friday, 9 June 2017

 

Morning

 

8:30 – 10:30

MODULE 3: Case studies for MSMEs
Trainers: Karina Calderón, Cristina Umaña, Gabriela Gándara, Ivón Hernández, Alejandro del Valle and Gustavo Noyola   

Example of a case

Guidelines to develop an intellectual property strategy

Development of an intellectual property strategy for your MSME 

 

10:30 – 10:45

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 11:45

Continuation MODULE 3
Presentation of the strategy

11:45 - 12:30

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

12:30 – 1:00

CLOSING SESSION 

  • Javier Gordon Ruiz, Director (a.i.) of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)
  • Ana Karina Calderón Rodríguez, Representative of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property
  • Mr Ezrra Orozco, Vice-Minister for Development of MSMEs of the Ministry of Economy (MINECO) of Guatemala

 

1:00 – 2:00

FREE TIME FOR LUNCH

   

Afternoon

 

2:00 – 8:00

ACTIVITY PLANNED BY THE GUATEMALAN INSTITUTE OF TOURISM AND THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY (MINECO) OF GUATEMALA (subject to confirmation)
   

 

 


 

TRAINER

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Ezrra Orozco

 

Vice-Minister for Development of MSMEs of the Ministry of Economy (MINECO) of Guatemala

PhD in Business Sciences, with a Masters in Finance and a Business Administrator.

Specialist in Microfinance and business development services for MSMEs.

25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and 17 years in consulting and management of non-profit institutions.

Experience working in International Cooperation programs in various International Organizations.

 

 

Ezrra 
Ana Karina Calderón 

Lawyer and notary with a Master’s Degree in Intellectual and Industrial Property and Information Technologies from the University of Alicante, Spain, with more than 20 years of experience in the field.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

Professor of the Course on Intellectual Property at different universities in Guatemala.

Recommended as a leading lawyer in intellectual property by Chambers & Partners Legal Publisher and Legal 500.


 

 

Ana Karina Calderon
María Isabel Saravia

Lawyer and notary with Specialization Courses on Intellectual Property by WIPO, with more than 12 years of experience in the field.

Director of Intellectual Property at the law firm Comte & Font/Legalsa.

Member of the Intellectual Property Committee of AMCHAM.

Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Maria Isabel Saravia
Ivón Hernández

Lawyer and notary from the Rafael Landívar University

Technician of Designations of Origin and Geographical Indications for Coffee from the Spanish Cooperation Agency.

Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property from the University of Turin and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Director of the Intellectual Property Department at the law firm Arias Guatemala.

Professor of the Course on Intellectual Property at the Rafael Landivar, Del Istmo and Del Valle Universities.

Member of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Ivon Hernandez
Gabriela Gándara

Lawyer and notary from the Francisco Marroquín University.

Master’s Degree in Intellectual and Industrial Property (Magister Lvcentinvs) from the University of Alicante, Spain.

Director of the Intellectual Property Department at the law firm Novales Abogados.

Professor of the Course on Intellectual Property at the Francisco Marroquín and Rafael Landivar Universities.

She served as a Legal Advisor of the Registry of Intellectual Property (2011-2013).

Member of the Academic Board of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Gabriela Gandara
Cristina Umaña 

Lawyer and notary from the Francisco Marroquín University.

Master’s Degree in Intellectual and Industrial Property and Information Technologies from the University of Alicante, Spain.

Professor of the Course on Intellectual Property at the Francisco Marroquín and Rafael Landivar Universities.

Intellectual Property and Corporate Lawyer at the law firm Umaña & Asociados.

Member of the Academic Board of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Cristina Umana
Luis Pablo Cobar 

Lawyer and notary from the University of San Carlos.

Master’s Degree in Economics from the Francisco Marroquín University / Centre for Advanced Studies Manuel Ayau in Madrid.

Member of team of expert consultants. Consultancy for the development of national policy and competition law for Guatemala.

Guest Professor of intellectual property and competition law at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and School of Judicial Studies - Supreme Court of Justice.

Member of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Luis Pablo Cobar

 

Alejandro
del Valle

Lawyer and notary from the Rafael Landivar University.

Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property from the University of San Carlos (studies completed).

Director of the Intellectual Property Department at the law firm QIL+4 Abogados.

Professor of the Course on Intellectual Property at the Rafael Landivar University and other universities of the country.

Member of the Academic Board of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Alejandro Del Valle
Verónica Ponce

Lawyer and notary from the Rafael Landivar University.

Master's Degree in Constitutional Law and Master's Degree in Procedural Law from the Rafael Landívar University.

Director of litigation of AGINPRO, collective management society that exercises the defense of related rights of phonogram producers and performers in Guatemala.

Professor of the Courses on Procedural Law and Criminal law from the Rafael Landivar University.

Member of the Academic Board of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Veronica Ponce
Andrés Wyld 

Lawyer and notary from the Francisco Marroquín University.

LLM from The London School for Economics and Political Science.

Lawyer at the law firm MAYORA IP.

Legal Director of the Division of Restaurants in Central America, Corporación Multi Inversiones.

First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the World Trade Organization.

Professor at the Francisco Marroquín University.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Andres Wyld
Gustavo Noyola 

Lawyer and notary from the Francisco Marroquín University.

Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property from the University of San Carlos (studies completed).

Director of Intellectual Property at the law firm Central Law.

Member of Committees in the International Trademark Association and the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property.

Member of the Academic Board of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

 

Gustavo Noyola
Enrique Moller 

Lawyer and notary from the Rafael Landivar University.

Master’s Degree in Trade and Economic Law from the Rafael Landívar University.

Partner and co-founder of the firm EY Centroamérica Inc.

Professor of the Courses on Trade Law and Procedural Theory at the Rafael Landivar University.

Member of the Board of Directors of the University of the Isthmus.

Ambassador of Intellectual Property for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Member of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property.

 

Enrique Moller