Argentina IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names

Argentina is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city. It is the second largest country in South America and eighth in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.

Argentina has the second highest Human Development Index level and the third highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America. Argentina's nominal GDP is the 31st largest in the world; but when purchasing power is taken into account, its total GDP makes it the 23rd largest economy in the world.

The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country or as a secondary emerging market by the World Bank. Argentina is also one of the G-20 major economies.

General Information

Capital:

Buenos Aires

Population:

40,5 Million

Languages:

Spanish

Government Type:

Federal presidential republic

Dialing Code:

+54

Timezone:

GMT -3

Monetary Unit:

Peso (ARS)

More information:

Argentina

International Arrangements

WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
Berne Convention (Artistic and Literary Works)
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services)
Strasbourg Agreement (International Patent Classification)
Rome Convention (Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations)
Geneva Convention (Unauthorized Duplication of Phonograms), since June 1973.
Nairobi Treaty (Olympic Symbol)
WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty)
WPPT (WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty)
Member and Signatory to TRIPS Agreement

Patents

Types of Patents:
Patents of Invention

Filing requirements:
- Power of attorney notarized and legalized by Consul of Argentina.
- One copy of the specification, claims and abstract (for translation into Spanish).
- Sets of the formal drawings, on Bristol board and soft copies.
- A certified copy of the basic foreign patent application, if priority is to be claimed.
- If the applicant in the Argentinean application is different from the applicant in the basic application or the granted patent, an assignment deed from the foreign applicant will be required.
- Details of applicant (name, residential address, country citizen and I.D.).
- Details of inventor/s (name, residential address, country citizen and I.D.).
- Certified copy of the patent priority document that includes memory, climbs and figures to be filed before the I.N.P.I. (Instituto Nacional de Propriedad Industrial - Argentinean Patent and Trademark Office). to be translated into Spanish by an Argentinean translator.

Granting:
Twenty year from the filing date

Renewals:
Available information does not exist

Trademarks

Filing requirements:
- Power of attorney duly legalized up to the Argentinean Consulate
- Five prints of the mark.
- Specification of goods or international classification.
- Priority document (when claiming convention priority: certified copy of the first filed foreign application).
- Details of the applicant.

Granting:
10 years from Registration date.

Renewals:
Renewable for like periods (10 years)

Designs and Models

Filing requirements:
Available information does not exist

Granting:
Five years

Renewals:
Renewable twice for like periods until a total of fifteen years

Copyrights

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

As a member of the Berne Convention, it is possible to copyright protect creative works in this country, as well as all the other member nations automatically (more than 160 countries), with one single application.

For more information and to submit us your works for worldwide copyright protection, click here.

Domain Names

Domain extension:

.ar

Requirements:
For .com.ar domain registration, the owner must have an address in Argentina. If you do not meet this requirement, we will provide our local address for the registration of your domain at no additional cost.

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Argentina IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names