Our firm practice is primarily directed to Patents, Copyright and trademark matters, particularly advising clients and prosecuting patent and trademark applications both in Venezuela and around the world. We have a wide experience in litigation of trademark and unfair competition matters before the courts and trademark trial and appeal boards. We also represents clients in trademark cancellation and opposition and proceeding and counselling clients regarding intellectual and industrial property matters.

In Venezuela we use the following agreements:

1- The agreement concerning the international classification of goods and service for the purposes of the registration of trademarks.

2- Decision 344 of the Cartagena Agreement. This decision is the law for the countries members of the Andean Group, wich are: Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela.

3- The Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works.

4- The Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property.

About the requeriments for obtaining registration of trademark in our country, we need:

a- Power of attorney duly legalized. ( Form provided by our firm ).

b- Clear and complete description of the design which the applicant intends to register in order to be published. ( If applicable )

c- Specification of the products or services in which the applicant is interested to register the trademark.

d- Three (03) trademark reproductions in photographic paper.

About the requeriments for obtaining Patents, Utility Model and Industrial Designs in our country, we need:

a- Power of attorney duly legalized. ( Form provided by our firm ).

b- Inventor´s name

c- Applicant and inventor identification card.

d- Invention Tittle or name.

e- Inventor´s declaration with assignment duly legalized.

( Form provided by our firm ).

f- A short summary of the purpose of the invention, explaining how the components work, without giving a detailed description of those elements.

g- If claiming priority, the applicant should inform:

I- The application number

II- Date of Submittance.

III- Country where the application was submitted.

IV- Certified copy of the application with the description, the replevies.

Important: All of this documents must be duly legalized before public notary and Venezuelan Consulate.

h-Description:

The invention should be fully and clearly described so that and expert in that field be able to execute or exploit it.

Replivies:

Is the most juridical part of the application. As it includes the extension of the patent; it should be clear, concise and precise; therefore, it is important during the whole patent duration. Replieves Shall not refer to plants, drawings or descriptive memory. Plans, drawings or graphic representations ( If it is the case ): They should have a 32 x 32 cm size ( legal size ) with a left and top margin of 5 cm and right bottom margin of 2 cm. perpendicular and lateral views, perspectives, cut and flow diagrams shall be enclosed when necessary. They should be schematic, without useless details nor elevation data. Final products: The most characteristic plans, drawing or graphic representation shall be presented in final art with a size no bigger than 12 x 12 cm in two copies and one in a size of 6 x 6 cm in photographic paper. The final art product should be sharp and original so that it can be reproduced by the off-set system to be published in the official gazzete. If the applications refer to a chemical compound or process, structural formulas may be directly printed in the extract with a size no bigger than 6 x 6 cm in a way that they may be cut away afterwards. Plans and final arts may be adapted to legal requeriments in our Company, when it is necessary. Note: The translations shall be carried out by our company.