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).
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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.
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