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Legislative Implementation of Flexibilities - Uruguay

Title:Articles 22 (d), 25, 32 (a) and 44 (b) of the Law No. 17.164 Regulating Rights and Obligations Relating to Patents, Utility Models and Industrial Designs No. 1.827*R of 02/09/1999
Field of IP:Patents
Type of flexibility:Disclosure related flexibilities
Summary table:PDF

Provisions of Law

22. Patent applications shall contain the following:

(d) a clear and full description of the invention;

25. For applications relating to microorganisms, the biological material needed to describe their subject matter shall be deposited with the bodies approved by the National Industrial Property Directorate of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, until the relevant international agreements have been ratified.

32. The purpose of the substantive examination of applications shall be to determine

whether the proposed invention meets the requirements and criteria for patentability laid

down in this Law.

For this purpose, it shall be permissible:

(a) to request the applicant to furnish copies of the anticipation search, the substantive

examinations and other documentation available to him;

44. Patents shall be invalid in the following cases:

(b) if the description was incomplete or inaccurate and did not allow the subject matter of the invention to be defined;