The application does not lose novelty if it is disclosed by the applicant, inventor, agent, or a third party or state agency that has obtained information from the above-mentioned persons within 6 months before the filing date/priority date.
Filing Language: Spanish
Necessary documents:
- Exterior Design Picture (Six Views)
- A Brief Description
Attachments (if any):
- Certified Priority Document
- Power of Attorney
- Certified Priority Document
- small entity declaration
- inventor statement
- Declaration of Ownership/Certification of Employment/Assignment of priority
- Assignment for Patent Right Transfer
- IDS Form/IDS Document/prior art
no
Columbia Chamber of Commerce and Industry
English: Superintendence of Industry and Commerce Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism
Website: http://www.sic.gov.co/
no
Colombia does not charge licensing official fees and annual fees
no
20 years
via Nationalization of PCT : 31 months from the earliest priority date (this period may be reinstated: (i) 2 months after the factors preventing the applicant from filing an application for national phase entry have ceased; or (ii) when an application for national phase entry can be filed within 12 months after the end of the 31 months);
via Paris Convention : 12 months from the earliest priority date (priority cannot be restored);
A request for substantive examination of a Colombian PCT application must be filed within six months of publication of the application. Applications can be accelerated through the Patent Prosecution Highway.
no