Jorge Espinosa

Jorge Espinosa

April 19, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The Right to a Jury Trial in Trademark Cases: 2 Years After Hard Candy

If you are seeking to enforce a federally registered trademark against a counterfeiter or infringer, you may not have the right to a jury. Instead, you will try the case before a judge, who serves as both the finder of fact and the determiner of law.

By Jorge Espinosa

5 minute read

April 05, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Look Before You Jump: The Importance of Trademark Searches

  It is always better to do something right from the start than to fix potentially costly mistakes later. This is particularly true with company…

By Jorge Espinosa

6 minute read

March 16, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The New Collateral Damage in the War in Ukraine: Intellectual Property

In a dramatic escalation of the rift between Russia and the West, the Russian Federation has issued an edict allowing its citizens to copy and use Western patents without payment or requiring authorization for use.

By Jorge Espinosa

4 minute read

December 03, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Growing Craze Behind Blockchain Art

With digital art, this has not always been possible because digital files can be easily copied. Here is where the modern technology of Blockchain has merged with art to create a thriving new digital art marketplace.

By Jorge Espinosa

5 minute read

June 25, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Argentina Modernizes and Simplifies Its IP Registration and Cancellation System    

For companies in the United States who have done business in Argentina, the bureaucracy has always been a significant hurdle. Processes simply take longer or require more complex submissions than in the United States.

By Jorge Espinosa and Patricio María Albornoz

1 minute read

May 17, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Legal Rights in Sugar Valley: Cuban Software Copyrights

Americans who have traveled to Cuba, have seen a beautiful country with crumbling buildings, unreliable electrical power and hard-to-access internet.

By Jorge Espinosa

5 minute read

July 21, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Business Opportunities: The Impact of President Trump's Cuba Policy

Most of the policy openings introduced by President Barack Obama remain in place. We still have an embassy in Havana, commercial flights and cruises to the island continue and certain American industries continue shipping products to the island country. So what changed? Basically, there were two major changes to the existing policy, writes Jorge Espinosa.

By Commentary by Jorge Espinosa

9 minute read

June 14, 2017 | Daily Business Review

5 Tips for Avoiding the Craft Beer Name Wars

Growing up on the East Coast in the 1970s the height of beer fantasies was the then-mythical Coors, which was only brewed and sold west of the Mississippi. A handful of national brands filled the local shelves but, with the exception of some locally available smaller brewers like Iron City in Pittsburgh, there was little beer choice, writes Jorge Espinosa.

By Commentary by Jorge Espinosa

5 minute read

May 10, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Cuba and Advertising: A Work in Progress

Despite the embargo, Americans have long been able to register their trademarks in Cuba under a general license allowing the expenditure of moneys to register and renew intellectual property in general and trademarks in specific, on the island. Until the early 2000s when the embargo was relaxed to allow the export to Cuba of branded agricultural products, how to develop and promote the brand in Cuba was not much of an issue. Since then, and with the more recent opening, how to use one's trademark in Cuba and how to build market share has become more important, Jorge Espinosa writes.

By Commentary by Jorge Espinosa

9 minute read

March 20, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Dancing With the Enemy: Doing Business in Cuba Today

Americans doing business in Cuba are making deals in their infancy under the U.S.-Cuba trade embargo, but some new business is getting done, writes attorney Jorge Espinosa.

By Commentary by Jorge Espinosa

9 minute read