Peru: speeding up and cooperating
From October 5 to October 14, 2015 took place the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO: Fifty-Fifth Series of Meetings (Geneva,
Switzerland).
At the meeting the Peruvian National Institute for the
Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi)
signed three international cooperation agreements on intellectual property with
European institutions in order to promote and increase the use of industrial
property system and the protection of it.
The Agreements
1. - Memorandum of Understanding with the Spanish Patent and
Trademark Office (SPTO) to establish an accelerated patent procedure i.e. Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).
Indecopi reports that this agreement is important since it
will “increase efficiency in the process of patent applications, thus advancing
towards a further reduction in processing time for them.” Currently the procedure
is done in 36 months. Moreover, there exist the “possibility that the Peruvian
inventors obtain a faster and exclusivity protection of their inventions in
Spain” and giving an opportunity to enter their products to the rest of the
European market.
2.- An institutional Cooperation Agreement signed with the National Institute of Industrial Property
of France (INPI), in order to create mechanisms of collaboration and support for Peru
on intellectual property.
3.- Memorandum of Understanding with the Office for
Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) of the European Union was signed,
to join efforts and achieve greater efficiency in the protection of rights
under trade marks and design rights.
Source Indecopi.
