General Provisions of Patent

Patent shall mean an exclusive right granted by the State to an Inventor for his Invention in the field of technology, for a certain time, to exploit his Invention or to authorize another person to exploit it.

Invention shall mean an Inventor’s idea that is poured in any activity of solving a specific problem in the field of technology, either in the form of a product or process, or an improvement and development of a product or a process.

Inventor shall mean a person or several persons acting together implementing an idea poured in an activity resulting in an Invention.


Patentable Inventions
-    A Patent shall be granted to an Invention, which is novel, involves an inventive step and is susceptible of industrial application.
-    An Invention shall be considered to involve an inventive step if said Invention does not constitute something that is obvious to a person skilled in the art.
-    The evaluation of whether or not an Invention constitutes something that is obvious must be made taking into account the state of the art at the time the Application is filed or which has existed at the time the first Application was filed, in case the Application is filed on the basis of a Priority Right.

Duration of Patents

-    A Patent shall be granted for a period of 20 (twenty) years, which cannot be extended, commencing from the Filing Date.
-    A Simple Patent shall be granted for a period of 10 (ten) years, which cannot be extended, commencing from the Filing Date

Requirements:
1.    A simply signed Power of Attorney (POA)
2.    Asssignment of right from  Inventor(s) to Applicant(s), if the applicant is not the inventor
3.    Certified copy of priority documents (on claiming priority)
4.    Specification of patent ( as well as description, abstract, claims, and drawing)