Data Protection in the Dominican Republic: What Law 172-13 Covers and the Reform Waiting in Congress Every business that holds customer data in the Dominican Republic operates under a statute written in 2013, largely with credit bureaus in mind. That gap between what companies actually do with data and what the law was built to […]
Trademarks in Dominican Republic: How the Nice Classification Decides What Your Registration Protects Two companies can lawfully own the identical brand name in the Dominican Republic, one for software, one for rum, because a trademark registration protects a name only within the classes of goods and services it designates. Choosing those classes is not clerical […]
Recording Your Trademark with Dominican Customs: The DGA Rights-Holder Registry Customs officers can only stop what they can recognize. That is the premise behind the Dominican Customs Registration of Owners of Intellectual Property Rights, created by Resolution 01-2010 of August 4, 2010, to facilitate the inspection and withholding of merchandise in customs transit suspected of […]
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