A patent is a set of exclusive property rights granted for an invention, which is a product, a technique or a process with novel transformative characteristics that provide a new way of doing something or a new solution to a problem. To obtain a patent, you must submit a patent application and provide technical information about the invention.
• Excludes others from making, using, distributing, importing or selling the invention without the consent of the patent owner. As a result, patent owners can obtain higher profit margins for their idea.
• Competitors may consider the risks of patent infringement before contemplating entering the market for the patented product or service, which would reduce competition.
• Increase the value of your business, as potential buyers of your business would consider the patent as a valuable asset.
• Invention Patents Right of exclusivity on an invention which is a technical solution to a problem, or a new way of doing something, being able to be of product or procedure provided it has novelty, inventive level and industrial application, according to what is established in Art. 14 of Decision 486 of the Andean Community of Nations. The granted invention patent is protected for a period of twenty (20) non-extendable years, counted from the date of filing of the application.
• Utility Model Patent Utility model, is any new form, configuration or arrangement of elements, of any device, tool, instrument, mechanism or other object or of any part thereof, that allows a better or different operation, use or manufacture of the object that incorporates it or to provide it with some utility, advantage or technical effect that it did not previously have, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 81 of Decision 486 of the Andean Community of Nations. The granted utility model patent is protected for a period of ten (10) non-extendable years, counted from the date of filing of the application.
• Industrial design It is considered as industrial design the particular appearance of a product that results from any meeting of lines or color combinations, or any two-dimensional or three-dimensional external form, line, contour, configuration, texture or material, without changing the destination or purpose of said product, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 113 of Decision 486 of the Andean Community of Nations. The industrial designs granted are protected for a period of ten (10) non-extendable years, counted from the date of submission of the application.
• integrated circuits According to the concept expressed by the Community Regulations Art. 86 of Decision 486 of the Andean Community of Nations, it is understood as: Integrated Circuit to a product, which in its final or intermediate form, whose elements, of which at least one It is an active element and some or all of the interconnections form an integral part of the body or surface of a piece of material, and which is intended to perform an electronic function. Layout scheme for the three-dimensional arrangement, expressed in any form, of the elements, being at least one of these active, and interconnections of an integrated circuit, as well as that three-dimensional arrangement prepared for an integrated circuit intended to be manufactured. The integrated circuit layout schemes granted have a protection period of ten (10) years.
1. Name and address of the applicant.
2. Name, address and citizenship of the inventor (s).
3. Title of the invention, summary of the invention, utility model or design.
4. Invention, utility model or description of design text.
5. Claims.
6. Priority claims (if applicable).
7. Set of formal drawings.
8. Translation of the foreign patent application into Spanish.
9. Official submission rate.
10. Power of Attorney.
Patent protection in Bolivia lasts 20 years from the date of granting, which cannot be extended.
• All documents must be translated into Spanish.
• All signed documents must be apostilled.
• Bolivia is a contracting state of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
• For the registration of a patent in Bolivia, it is necessary to request a patentability examination within six months of the publication of the patent.
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