PROSECUTION GUIDELINES
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Uruguay
GDP: $59,597 BILLION
IMPORTS: $11,323 BILLION
POPULATION: 3,449,299
TOTAL AREA: 176,215 KM2
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:SPANISH
CURRENCY: URUGUAYAN PESO ($U) (UYU)
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs: NO.
Law No. 17,164.
6 months.
YES.
- Power of Attorney.
- Drawings displaying all views of the design.
- Description not required.
- Priority document when applicable, translated by local sworn translator.
YES.
YES. 12 months.
- Filing.
- Publication request within a 12 months term since the priority date, upon which the application is effectively published within 1-2 months.
- Payment of examination fees.
- Decision.
YES. Oppositions can be filed within 60 days from the publication. Nullity actions are also possible, within 5 years from granting or within 3 years from exploitation, whichever term expires first.
12-18 months.
10 years, extendable for 5 additional years (payment of the renewal fee has to be made in the tenth year, requesting the extension for the additional 5 years). Annuities have to be attended in order to preserve the rights.
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Madrid System: NO.
Law 17.011 dated 25 September 1998.
(Regulatory Decree 34/99 of 3 February 1999)
Nice classification, 11th edition.
YES.
Words, names, acronyms, letters, numbers, devices, combinations of colours, three-dimensional forms, the three-dimensional form of a good or its packaging, sound marks and any sign capable of distinguishing goods or services.
- Power of Attorney merely signed (no legalisation and no notarisation required) within 30 days from the application date.
- Certified copy of the priority application and its translation into Spanish within 90 days from the application date.
- Absolute grounds for refusal: YES.
- Relative grounds for refusal: YES.
30 days from publication date.
Approximately 20-24 months, unless any obstacles were raised.
10 years from the date of registration.
YES. As of 1 January 2014 cancellation can be requested if a trade mark has not been used for 5 years, counting from the registration date. Cancellation actions due non-use are possible as of 1 January 2019. Partial cancellation is not possible.
6 months prior to renewal date.
6 months.
- Contracting Party of The Paris Convention: YES.
- Contracting Party of The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): NO.
Patent Law 17.164/2000.
- Patent of Invention.
- Utility Model.
NO.
- Power of Attorney merely signed (no legalization required) within 30 days from filing.
- Assignment document from the inventors merely signed (no legalization required) within a 180 working-day term from filing. Not required under certain circumstances.
- Certified copy of priority application within 180 days from filing. The translation of the priority application must be signed by a sworn registered local translator.
NO. Late submission of the Spanish translation is acceptable within a 30-day term provided that at least, Spanish translation of the claims and abstract and the first pages of the specification are submitted upon filing the application.
YES, within 120 days from publication.
NO.
YES, within 60 working days from publication.
YES, within 60 working days from publication.
8 years.
20 years from filing date.
10 years from filing date and could be renewed for 5 more years the same for Industrial Designs.
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 after grant.
NOT mandatory.
YES.
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