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Chile
GDP:$298,231 BILLION
IMPORTS: $86,487 BILLION
POPULATION: 18,729,160
TOTAL AREA: 756,096.3 KM2
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: SPANISH
CURRENCY: CHILEAN PESO ($) (CLP)

- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Hague Agreement on Insudtrial Designs: NO.
Chilean Law 19.039.
12 months.
NO.
- Identification of the applicant and the designer.
- Assignment document.
- Priority document, when applicable.
- Specifications.
- Drawings.
- Power of Attorney.
Not part of the Locarno Agreement contracting parties, but Locarno Classification used in practice.
In the case of industrial design applications, this suspension may be requested for a maximum period of 6 months from the priority date of the application, if it has one, or from the filing date in Chile if it has no previous filing.
- Filing.
- Preliminary examination.
- Publication.
- Examination Request.
- Examiner’s report.
- Decision.
Yes. Within a 45 working days term from the publishing date. Cancellation is also possible, within 5 years from granting.
Around 3 years.
10 years counted from the application date.
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Madrid System: YES.
Industrial Property Law No. 19.039 -Last modification by Regulatory Decree No. 20569 of 6 February 2012-.
Nice classification, 11th edition.
Possible.
Words, names and all distinctive and graphically representable signs, as well as sound marks and slogans.
- Power of Attorney merely signed (no legalisation and no notarisation required) 60 working days after the official request.
- Copy of priority application (in colour) and its translation into Spanish within 90 days from filing.
- Absolute grounds for refusal: YES.
- Relative grounds for refusal: YES.
30 working days from publication date.
Approximately 8 months, unless any obstacles were raised.
10 years from the date of registration.
NO.
6 months prior to renewal date.
6 months.
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): YES. Due term for entry into national phase: 30 months.
Patent Law 19.039/1991 -modified by Law No. 19.996 on November 2005, Law No. 20.160 on 2007 and finally, by Law 20.569 on 2012-.
- Utility Model.
- Industrial designs.
- Layout-designs or topography of integrated circuits.
NO.
- Power of Attorney merely signed (no legalization required) within 60 working days from office action.
- Assignment document from the inventors merely signed (no legalization required) within 60 working-days from office action. Not required under certain circumstances,
- Original version of priority application within 90 working-days from filing (not required for entry into national phase of PCT applications provided that PCT/IB304 form is available).
Accepted. Late submission of the Spanish translation is possible within 60 days from filing.
YES, within 60-working days as from the end of the opposition term.
NO.
YES, within 45-working days from publication.
YES, within 45-working days from publication.
2.5 to 5 years.
20 years from filing date.
10 years from filing date.
UM suitable for utensils, instruments, tools, apparatus, devices, or any parts or improvements thereof, but not to chemical products, methods or uses; lower threshold for inventive step.
Payment for periods of 10 years after grant.
Optional. Failure to comply with this requirement will not affect the validity of the patent, but criminal proceedings for infringement could not be started (only civil proceedings would be available).
YES.
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