PATENTS

The application for registration of an INVENTION PATENT must be submitted to the National Industrial Property Service and must contain the following: the description; one or more claims; one or more drawings, when necessary to understand the invention, which will be considered an integral part of the description.

• Power of Attorney: In cases where the applicant is represented, in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
• SENAPI Service Fees: Proof of payment of the established fees.
  Publication Fees: Official Gazette of Bolivia.
• Priority: If you wish to claim priority based on the Paris Convention or Decision 486, we require a copy of the originally filed application.

We will advise you on your best protection option, taking into account the international conventions in force at any given time, and we will take the necessary steps before the National Intellectual Property Service, or before the Competent National Intellectual Property Office, for Invention Patents in the country of interest, through the legal channels established in each case.

A patent must meet three requirements:

Novelty, meaning it must be new worldwide; that is, the invention must not be part of technical knowledge prior to the application date.

Inventive Step, meaning it involves a technical solution that is not obvious or evident to an expert in the field.

Industrial Application, meaning it must be susceptible to commercial or industrial application and/or use; that is, it must have the conditions and possibilities to be commercialized in the market, through reproduction or use.

What rights does a patent confer?

The inventor or patent holder enjoys the right of exclusive exploitation of his patent, within the national territory for a period of twenty years from the date of filing for invention patents, who can transfer the rights to another person(s), as well as in his death, to his successors, also has the power to authorize the exploitation of his patent to third parties by granting an exploitation license.

Regarding monitoring, we offer a permanent monitoring service for all new patent applications published in the Official Gazette of Bolivia and continuously in the various national official bulletins. We inform our clients of any potential conflicts with these applications through the legal channels established in the corresponding legislation.

Regarding maintenance, we constantly monitor your patent applications throughout their legal life to notify you in advance of the steps required to maintain them in force, advance annual fee payments, declarations of use, etc.

What is a utility model patent?

A utility model is an exclusive right granted by the State to any new form, configuration, or arrangement of elements of an artifact, tool, instrument, mechanism, or other object, or any part thereof, that allows for a better or different functioning, use, or manufacture of the object it incorporates, or that provides it with some utility, advantage, or technical effect that it did not previously have.

The applicant for a utility model patent may request that the application be converted into an application for a patent of invention or for registration of an industrial design, provided that the subject matter of the initial application allows it. For the latter purposes, the requirements established in Article 35 must be met.

• Power of Attorney: In cases where the applicant is acting on behalf of the applicant, in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
• SENAPI service fees: Proof of payment of the established fees.
• Publication fees: Official Gazette of Bolivia.
• Priority: If you wish to claim priority based on the Paris Convention or Decision 486, we require a copy of the originally filed application.

We will advise you on your best protection option based on the international conventions in force at any given time and will take the appropriate steps before the National Intellectual Property Service or the competent national intellectual property office of the country of interest, using the legal channels established in each case.

The term of validity of a utility model will be ten years from the date of filing of the application in the respective Member Country.

An Industrial Design shall be considered to be the particular appearance of a product resulting from any combination of lines or color combinations, or from any two-dimensional or three-dimensional external form, line, contour, configuration, texture, or material, without changing the purpose or purpose of said product.

The right to register an industrial design belongs to the designer. This right may be transferred by an act inter vivos or through succession. The holders of the registration may be natural or legal persons. If several persons jointly create an industrial design, the right to register it belongs jointly to all of them.

The applicant for an INDUSTRIAL DESIGN must file a request with the competent national office, the National Intellectual Property Service, and must include:

A graphic or photographic representation of the industrial design. In the case of two-dimensional designs incorporated into a flat material, the representation may be replaced with a sample of the product incorporating the design.

• Proxy Statement: In cases where the applicant acts on behalf of the applicant, in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
• SENAPI service fees: Proof of payment of established fees.
• Publication fees: Official Gazette of Bolivia.
• Priority: If you wish to claim priority based on the Paris Convention or Decision 486, we require a copy of the originally submitted application.

We will advise you on your best protection option based on the international conventions in force at any given time and will take the appropriate steps before the National Intellectual Property Service or the competent National Intellectual Property Office for Industrial Designs in the country of interest, using the legal channels established in each case.

The term of validity of a utility model will be ten years from the date of filing the application in the respective Member Country.

Regarding monitoring, we offer a permanent monitoring service for all new applications for INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS published in the Official Gazette of Bolivia and continuously in the various national official bulletins. We inform our clients of any potential conflicts with these applications through the legal channels established in the corresponding legislation.

Regarding maintenance, we constantly monitor INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS throughout their legal life to notify you in advance of the steps to be taken to maintain them in force, including advance annual fee payments and declarations of use with the National Intellectual Property Service.