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Our Services For The Patent Registration In Uruguay Include:

  • Search for background in registered or pending patents; By matter and owner;
  • Advising and reviewing the patentability of their designs and inventions in accordance with local legislation.
  • Review of the format and drafting of specifications, claims, and drawings in accordance with the guidelines of the international and local patent laws.
  • Legal translation of the text of the invention
  • Procedures before the Patent Office for Registration and Obtaining of Patents, amendments, transfers, name changes.
  • Patent litigation, compulsory licensing, unauthorized exploitation.

For information on costs and fees for the registration of patents in Uruguay. Contact us now.

Patent Registration in Uruguay General Information

The Uruguayan state understands that inventions are the result of creative activity, the task of research, or the experience of the practical life of men. They develop products or new procedures that will bring solutions to certain technical problems.

That is why it is necessary through a patent registry in Uruguay to ensure that the beneficiary owners of patenting can have the state’s legal and concrete guarantees, the commercial exploitation of their invention.

In Uruguay, only those inventions or procedures that comply with the principles of:

1- Absolute novelty
2- Inventive height
3- Industrial application

The registration of a patent in Uruguay has a duration of 20 years according to (articles 21 and 48 lit. A). The term of the utility models is of ten years, extendable for five more (article 84).

The patents granted by Uruguay only have only protection within the Uruguayan state demarcation. Patents of the invention, Utility models, Industrial models or designs. They are the patentable objects in Uruguay.

For information on costs and fees for the registration of patents in Uruguay. Contact us now.