COLOMBIA IP CHANGES
A BIG STEP: COLOMBIA’S
T e Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) formally invited Colombia to open membership talks on May 30, 2013, at the end of the Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris.
T e organisation was created in 1961 aſt er evolving from the OEEC (created in Paris 1948 as one of the organisations that accompanied the initiation of the Marshall Plan in Europe), and is a cooperation organisation where the member states take decisions by consensus.
T e initiation of the process for accession follows other countries that recently joined, most notably Chie, which was accepted as a member in 2010. Successful fi nalisation of the process may take as long as three years, of which the next step will be the establishment of individual roadmaps for each country (OECD’s Council Resolution ‘A general Procedure for Future Accessions’, May 13, 2007, doc C[2007[31/FINAL, May 16 2007, par 4 and 5.)
T e announcement was received enthusiastically by Fitch Ratings: “We see the invitation, in part, as recognition of Colombia’s largely successful macroeconomic policies, which have helped
sustain growth momentum, while attracting investment and keeping infl ation rates low.”
T e Colombian Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Sergio Diaz-Granados, also highlighted the event, emphasising the complex array of the steps already taken by the Colombian government, together with the OECD, including Colombia’s accession to several OECD instruments and an in-depth review of domestic policies.
In the IP area, Colombia has entered into several multilateral agreements:
(a) Budapest Treaty on the International
Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (1977), as amended in 1980: Approved by Law 1515 of 2012, ratifi cation has not been made.
(b) WIPO Copyright Treaty (1996): in force 2002.
(c) WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (1996): in force 2002.
(d) Patent Cooperation Treaty (1970), as amended in 1979: in force 2001. (e) Trademark Law Treaty (1994): in force 2012. 130 World Intellectual Property Review September/October 2013
ACCESSION TO THE OECD With Colombia’s accession to the Organization for Economic Development comes a raft of intellectual property changes, as Ernesto Cavelier explains.
(f) International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (1978) (UPOV Convention): in force since September 13, 1996, Law 243 of 1995.
(g) Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1989): in force 2012.
(h) Brussels Convention Relating to the
Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite (1974): approved law 1519/12 not in force.
Other agreements have not been approved: (a) Patent Law Treaty (2000).
(b) Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (1999).
(c) International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (1991) (UPOV Convention): Approved by Congress by Law 1518 of 2012; Constitutional Court (Judgment C-1051/12) did not approve the law due to lack of consultation with indigenous communities.
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