Business brief 2010: Venezuela

01-01-2010

Patricia Hoet-Limbourg

Our current Industrial Property Law provides that in order to obtain protection of an invention, an application should be filed before the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

Patents

How do you register or secure patent rights, and is national or international coverage most appropriate?

Our current Industrial Property Law provides that in order to obtain protection of an invention, an application should be filed before the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Venezuela is a member of the Paris Convention but not the Patent Cooperation Treaty; therefore, applications should be filed locally and will have national coverage.


Business brief, IP rights

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