Title: | Articles 24-28 of the Law No. 35 of 10/05/1996, enacting Provisions on Industrial Property |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Utility models |
Summary table: |
24. A utility model is any shape, configuration or arrangement of the components of any appliance, tool, instrument, mechanism or other object, or any part thereof, that makes for the better or different operation, use or manufacture of the object incorporating it, or lends it any usefulness, advantage or technical effect that it did not have previously.
25. Utility models that are new and susceptible of industrial application shall be registrable.
A utility model shall not be registrable when it possesses only minor differences, those that lead it no discernible utilitarian characteristic as compared with previous inventions or utility models being considered such.
26. The registration of utility models shall have a non-renewable term of ten years, counted from the filing date of the application, and shall be subject to the payment of the fees laid down in the corresponding law.
27. The present provisions on patents shall be applicable as appropriate to utility models, without prejudice to the special provisions contained in this Law.
28. The rules contained in the following Chapter shall be applied as appropriate to the processing of a utility model registration.