PROSECUTION GUIDELINES
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You will find here all the important information about filing trademarks, designs and patents.
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Cuba
GDP: $96,851 BILLION
IMPORTS: $11,622 BILLION
POPULATION: 11,338,138
TOTAL AREA: 109,884 KM2
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: SPANISH
CURRENCY: CUBAN CONVERTIBLE PESO (CUC$) (CUC)
Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
Contracting Party of The Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs: NO.
Decree Law 290 and Decree 342 on Inventions and Designs.
NO.
YES.
- Power of Attorney.
- Drawings.
- Brief description of each of the drawings.
- Assignment document.
YES.
YES, 12 months.
- Filing.
- Formal examination.
- Publication.
- Oppositions.
- Substantive examination.
- Decision.
- Appeal.
- Definitive decision.
- Registration Certificate.
- Publication of granting.
YES, before granting, within a 60 days term from the publication. Cancellation action after granting also possible.
1-2 years approximately.
10 years, with annuity payment from 3rd year (1st and 2nd included in filing fees).
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Madrid System: YES.
Decree Law 203/2000 of 1999.
Nice classification, 11th edition.
YES.
Signs, words, names, acronyms, letters, numbers, devices, emblems, holograms, colours, combinations or shades of colours, three-dimensional forms, the three-dimensional form of a good or its packaging.
- Power of Attorney merely signed (no legalisation and no notarisation required), within 60 days from the filing date.
- Certified copy of the priority application and its translation into Spanish, within 3 months from the filing date.
- Absolute grounds for refusal: YES.
- Relative grounds for refusal: YES.
60 days from the publication date.
Approximately 18 months, unless any obstacles were raised. Currently, there is a delay of more than 2 years, due to a significant backlog at the TM Office.
10 years from the date of application.
YES. Cancellation can be requested if the trade mark has not been used for 3 years, counting from the registration date. Partial cancellation is possible.
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.
Legal Decree 290 of April 1, 2012 and Decree 342 of August 10, 2018.
- Patent of Invention.
- Utility Model.
YES.
- Power of Attorney merely signed (no legalization required) within 60 days from office action.
- Assignment document from the inventors merely signed (no legalization required) within 60 days from office action. Not required under certain circumstances.
- Certified copy of priority application within 90 days from filing (not required for entry into national phase of PCT applications provided that PCT/IB304 form is available).
Accepted for the entry into national phase of PCT applications only. In such case late submission of the Spanish translation is possible within 60 days from office action.
NO.
NO.
YES, within 60 working days from publication.
YES, within 60 working days from publication.
4 years.
20 years from filing date.
1o 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.
Yearly also during prosecution of the application.
NOT mandatory.
YES.
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