Patents

Patents are property titles that the Superintendent’s Office of Industry and Trade (Colombian IPO) grants to a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem.

The patent is granted for a term of twenty (20) years from the filing date of the application and it is not renewable. Thus, the patent holder has the right to exclusive use of the patented invention during the term of protection.

In Colombia, for an invention to be patentable it must be new, it must take an inventive step, and it must be industrially applicable.

Novelty indicates that the invention has not been made accessible to the public by a written or oral description, use, marketing or any other means.

The inventive step indicates that the invention is not an obvious result of the state of the art and that it is non-obvious to a person skilled in the art.

Finally, industrial application discloses that it should be possible to produce and use the invention on an industrial scale.

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