Published on 7.6.26 in Legal Today Collective protection of innovation and artificial intelligence reforms intellectual property. Technology transfers and investments in industrial circulation do not guarantee continuous intellectual property protection. Artificial intelligence and innovation, axiologically, divide rights over intangible assets. Individually, they enhance each other to modernize and scale the protection of creations. Collectively, they incentivize the engineering of smart...

Publicado en Legal Today el 14.05.2026 Joãozinho is a street child who sells candy to drivers in the chaotic traffic of a Brazilian city to survive. Far from school, he risks his life dodging cars and hanging small bags of sweets from the side mirrors of vehicles during the 90 seconds it takes for a traffic light to turn red. Like so many other impoverished Brazilian children who suffer the same ordeal, each bag has a piece of paper stapled to it with a QR code, “PIX,” so that any driver who...

Signed in January and February, the EU-Mercosur and US-Argentina agreements present different, yet complementary, characteristics. Their combination generates a circumstantial geopolitical controversy. In Argentina, for example, both agreements are currently vying for parliamentary ratification. While the Mercosur-EU agreement required 25 years of negotiations, the one signed between the US and Argentina took no more than a year and a half, defying the rule of Mercosur Council Decision 32/00,...