10/05/2022 (Agence Europe) – The European Patent Office (EPO) and Peru’s National Institute for the Defence of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) have concluded a Reinforced Partnership agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperative Patent Classification, according to an EPO press release published on Friday, 6 May. This is the fifth Reinforced Partnership that the EPO has signed in Latin America, following agreements with national offices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. (PH)