Rights: Under the Andean Decision No. 486, the grant of a Patent confers to the owner a series of rights. Those rights are: Term of protection: The invention will be protected for 20 years from the filing date of the application. Scope of protection: What is protected is determined by the content of the claims, using the more…
A European patent application may be filed by any natural or legal person, or any body equivalent to a legal person by virtue of the law governing it. It may also be filed either by joint applicants or by two or more applicants designating different Contracting States. The right to a European patent shall belong more…
The right to a patent shall belong to the inventor, and it may be transferred by an inter vivos transaction or by succession. The owner can be a natural person or a legal entity, and a patent can be owned by two or more persons if they have made an invention jointly. At a first more…
Pretty much as in the Andean Community Regime, under the European Patent Convention Patents shall be granted for any inventions, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application. The differences, however, rely on the way that each of those systems define and limit the different more…
Under the Andean Community Provisions, Patents shall be granted for inventions (goods or processes), provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are industrially applicable. Novelty: Dec. No. 486 establishes that an invention shall be considered new when it is not included in the state of the art. For Dec. 486, “state of art“ comprises everything that has been more…
