
PROSECUTION GUIDELINES
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You will find here all the important information about filing trademarks, designs and patents.
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El Salvador
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POPULATION: 6,420,744
TOTAL AREA: 21,040 KM2
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: SPANISH
CURRENCY: UNITED STATES DOLLAR ($) (USD)

- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs: NO.
Intellectual Property Law 1993.
2 years.
NO.
- Applicant identification.
- Graphic representation of the design.
- Payment of official fee.
- Classification of the design.
- Brief description.
YES.
YES, up to 12 months.
- Filing.
- Publication.
- Oppositions.
- Decision.
YES, although it is not formal. Observations must be filed within 60 days from publication.
6-9 months.
10 years from filing date. No maintanenance fees applicable. No extensions available.
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Madrid System: NO.
Trade Mark Act of 6 June 2002.
Nice classification, 11th edition.
YES.
All distinctive and graphically representable signs, words, names, acronyms, letters, colours, numbers (letters, colours and numbers cannot be registered if the are filed individually), devices, emblems, combinations or shades of colours, three-dimensional forms, the three-dimensional form of a good or its packaging, sounds and smells.
- Power of Attorney notarised and legalised within 2 months from the official request.
- Certified copy of the priority application and its translation into Spanish within 3 months from the application date.
- Absolute grounds for refusal: YES.
- Relative grounds for refusal: YES.
2 months from the first publication.
Approximately 9 months, unless any obstacles were raised.
10 years from the date of registration.
YES. Cancellation can be requested if the trade mark has not been used for 5 years, counting from the registration date. Partial cancellation is possible.
1 year prior to renwal 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.
IP Law of March 23, 2006.
- Patent of Invention.
- Utility Model.
NO.
- Power of Attorney duly notarized and legalized within 10 days from notification.
- Assignment document from the inventors duly notarized and legalized (which may be substituted by a sworn declaration by the representative) within 60 days from office action.
- Certified copy of priority application within 180 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 6 months.
YES, within 6 months from publication.
NO.
YES, within 60 days from publication.
YES, within 60 days from publication.
4-5 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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