On July 4th, 2022, three months after the deposit of the instrument of accession before the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the “Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks” (the “Madrid Protocol”) entered into force in our country. The accession determined that Chile joined the Madrid System,…
On May 9th entered into in force, through the publication of its administrative regulations, Law No. 21,355 that amends Law No. 19,039 on Industrial Property and Law No. 20.524, which creates the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI).
On March 17th, 2021, through the publication of General Ruling No. 96/2021 in the Official Gazette, the National Institute of Industrial Property (“INAPI”) provided new instructions in relation to the filing and payment of renewal applications of trademark registrations in Chile, applying the regulations set forth in the Trademark Law Treaty (“TLT”), which was ratified…