Intellectual Property
New guidance on vehicle data and the Data Act: challenges and opportunities
The European Commission has published the first guidelines clarifying how the obligations of the Data Act apply to connected vehicles. The document provides guidance for manufacturers, providers and users on access to, and use and transmission of, the data generated by vehicles, paving the way to a new stage in automotive data governance and the structure of future business models based on digital mobility.Let the games begin: the video game as a key player of the entertainment industry
From a niche pastime to a global phenomenon, video games now stand as a driving force of the entertainment industry. Beyond creativity and technology, they embody a complex fusion of art, technology, and law. As multifaceted works, video games demand thoughtful legal analysis and strategic intellectual property planning from development to launch.More reliable online reviews? The new European Code of Conduct for reviews in the tourism industry
The adoption of the Code of Conduct for online ratings and reviews for tourism accommodation constitutes a new step in the fight against fake reviews. This initiative, launched by the European Commission together with digital travel platforms, hotels and consumer associations, aims to achieve greater transparency and reliability of reviews. The objective is to regain consumers’ trust in these ratings mechanisms, so that only verified guests can leave an opinion, with a view to avoiding fake reviews that harm travelers, establishments and platforms alike.The Data Act and cloud switching: keys to the new rules on changing cloud service providers
The new EU Data Regulation (Data Act) introduces an unprecedented regime to facilitate switching between cloud service providers. The aim: to eliminate the technical and contractual obstacles that have constrained many users. As from September 2025, portability will be a legally binding right with specific obligations for providers.EU public consultation on detecting and labelling AI-Generated content concludes: towards greater transparency
The European Commission has taken a decisive step toward implementing Article 50 of the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act) through a public consultation—now concluded—focused on how to detect and label AI-generated content. The goal is to define, before 2026, guidelines and a Code of Practice to ensure transparency and inform users that they are interacting with an AI system.How is Peru using IP to protect its local recipes and premium products?
Famed as a world class cultural and culinary destination, Peru has taken decisive steps to protect its traditional recipes and emblematic products using IP. Geographical indications (GI or IG in Spanish) and traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG or ETG in Spanish) labels have been introduced through INDECOPI to preserve the country’s rich gastronomic heritage.Mexico: Good and bad practices in AI use at companies
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more prevalent. In personal life, the responsibility for its use falls on each user, but in the workplace, companies must ensure that its use does not generate legal risks. Therefore, it is key to establish clear policies that regulate good and bad AI practices within organisations.Are you feeding your AI model properly?
Although the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) does not regulate copyright, it does recognize the existing tension between technology providers and content creators. Seeking a balance between these two forces, it provides for the implementation of opt-out mechanisms allowing the owners of protected works to stop them being used to train AI models, while also allowing them to require suppliers to disclose the sources they have used. Compliance will start to apply on August 2, 2025, so now is the time to make sure that general-purpose AI model providers – including generative AI models – are ready to comply.Exhaustion of trademark rights: is it all a question of proof?
In the field of industrial property, few questions generate as many disputes as the conflict between the exclusive rights of the proprietor of a trademark and the activities engaged in by so-called “parallel importers”. In this scenario, the crucial aspect is not so much the authenticity of the product, as the legitimacy of its marketing in the European Economic Area. What starts out as a distribution problem can end up being purely a question of evidence: Who must evidence that the trademark no longer confers ius prohibendi on its proprietor?