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The School of Intellectual Property in El Salvador
By Eproint
The School of Intellectual Property (EPI) of the National Center of Registries (CNR) in El Salvador is spearheading several key projects to maximize impact on intellectual property education, training, and skills-building.
EPI is a WIPO Academy IP Training Institution (IPTI) that was established in 2015 and has carried out 154 training activities for 7,916 people since its creation. The recent impact initiatives of EPI are particularly geared towards the youth, women entrepreneurs, and academia.
The IPTIs are WIPO Academy’s sustainable, cost-effective, and scalable solution to local IP training and skills-building needs. Since the inception of the IPTIs Program in 2010, 18 IPTIs have been established and 14 are underway. Through the IPTIs, WIPO Academy supports member states in setting up their own training centers and continues to provide support to the IPTIs for developing, designing, and implementing training projects, programs, and services that serve common needs, in addition to providing spaces for IPTIs to collaborate and network.
By guiding universities on establishing IP policies to promote scientific research and technological development among their researchers, the school in El Salvador is dedicated to working on specialized skills-building programs for women and the youth, and in new IP areas for the academic sector such as innovation and green technologies. Also, university students are trained on the basics of IP and fundamental elements of contracts relating to IP rights.
Additionally, competitions are held to develop marketable inventions. The inventions submitted for the competitions solve specific technical problems in the energy, software, construction, health, environment, agriculture and engineering sectors.
Upcoming projects target key domestic sectors such as surf tourism and the creative industries, among others.
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In El Salvador, Practice Head Edy Guadalupe Portal is a partner at Eproint and has more than 25 years of experience in Intellectual Property. Since 1995, she has been recognized as the Salvadoran voice of Intellectual Property protection for always informing the IP community about changes to IP law and international treaties.
During her career, Mrs. Portal has helped numerous international law firms and in-house counsel with all facets of their IP matters in El Salvador and Central America. Her extensive practice includes work in trademarks, patents, industrial designs, utility models, copyrights, unfair competition, foreign investment, regulatory law/health registrations, licensing, franchising, appellations of origin, geographical indications, IP litigation, fashion law, new technologies, data privacy, cybersecurity, domain names, entertainment law, advertisement law, trade secrets, valuation of intangibles, and IP due diligence. She is also recognized for the great anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting results she has delivered for her clients. She also helps coordinate Latin America Intellectual Property Protection for the firm.