Registration forms

Titles of industrial property rights are territorial, each state has its own system and the validity covers the territory for which it is granted. Hence you have to submit as many applications as states in which you want to protect the invention. And in those where no protection is sought, the information is public domain, being able to operate freely.

International conventions exist to address these problems. They are agreements that allow citizens to members from signing these agreements benefit from certain privileges, especially that of "national treatment" and the establishment of a common procedure for granting patents.

These international agreements are:

• Union Convention of Paris of 1883
• Munich Convention on the Grant of European Patents
• Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
• World Trade Organization Agreement (GATT)
• Budapest Treaty on the Deposit of Microorganisms 1977
• Berne Convention