Cape Verde IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names

The Republic of Cape Verde is an archipelagic nation located in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. The previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century (though there may have been earlier discoveries), and attained independence from Portugal in 1975.

General Information

Capital:

Praia

Population:

426 Thousand

Languages:

Portuguese

Government Type:

Republic

Dialing Code:

+238

Timezone:

GMT -1

Monetary Unit:

Cape Verdean Escudo (CVE)

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Cape Verde

International Arrangements

WIPO

Patents

Types of Patents:
Patents of Invention

Filing Requirements:
Patents of Invention
- Notorized Power of Attorney (in Portuguese or with Portuguese translation)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Specification, claims and abstract in Portuguese
- Drawings
- Deed of Assignment of Invention (notarized and legalized)
- Priority document with Portuguese translation

Granting:
-The term of a patent is twenty years from the filing date.
-Renewal fees fall due annually from the first anniversary of the filing date

Renewals
-Every year

Trademarks

Filing Requirements:
- Notorized Power of Attorney (in Portuguese or with Portuguese translation)
- 2 prints of the trademark
- The full particulars of the applicant
- The list of the goods and/or services to be covered by the trademark and classes in Portuguese
- Priority document with Portuguese translation

Opposition Period:
90 days from publication of trademark application

Granting:
The protection is for ten years, and starts from the date of application

Renewals:
Every ten 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:

.cv

Requirements:
- For .com.cv there are no requirements.
- For .cv domain registration, domain must match the name of your company or trademark registered in Cape Verde

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Cape Verde IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names