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Filing Requirements:

Trademarks: Argentine


  Trademark Filing Requirements:

  1. Power of attorney duly legalized up to the Argentinean Consulate or Apostille (Power Form).

  2. Five prints of the mark.

  3. Specification of goods or international classification.

  4. Priority document (when claiming convention priority: certified copy of the first filed foreign application).

  5. Details of the applicant.

 

  Renewal Requirements:

  1. Power of attorney duly legalized up to the Argentinean Consulate or stamped with Apostille (Power Form).

  2. Sworn declaration of use. (in case of urgency or convenience it could be forwarded by fax). Delay is not legally admissible nor it is possible to obtain an additional time limit for its presentation.

 

  Change of Name/ Address Requirements:

  1. Power of attorney duly legalized up to the Argentinean Consulate or Apostille. (Power Form).

  2. Document certifying the changing of the owners’ name with consular legalization.

  3. Registration Certificate

 

  Assignments:

  1. Registration Certificate.

  2. Assignment agreement executed by both parties with consular legalization of the assignors’ signature.

  3. If the assignment agreement does not include a power of attorney, then a separate document is required (legalized).

 

  Time Limits to Fulfill the Requirements:

  1. The power of attorney may be filed within 60 days counting from the filing date. (Power Form)

  2. While the priority document may be filed within 3 months after filing the application.

 

  Searches:

  1. Method of  search: Conducted by computer on a private database.

  2. Time to be taken: 5 days.

  3. Contents: Search report includes  information of prior marks hit by the search and comments on similarity between the subject mark and each relevant prior mark.

  4. Other: Necessity of use search on prior marks should be judged by case.

 

General Information:

Classification: International; single-class filing.

 

Registrable: Trademarks, service marks (From 35 - 45).

 

Filing international registration under protocol to Madrid Agreement: No.

 

Filing international registration under Madrid Agreement: No.

 

Claiming priority under Paris Convention: Yes.

 

Time from filing to registration: 2 years.

 

Registration duration: 10 years from Registration date.

 

Renewal duration: 10 years.

 

Publication: After application, in the Boletin de Marcas.

 

Opposition period: 30 days.

 

Renewal application: The renewal application can be filed within 2 months before expiry.

 

Use: Non-use for 5 years following registration and/or prior to the initiation of a cancellation action makes the registration vulnerable to cancellation; use of the mark in any class at any time during the five years prior to expiration date is required for renewal purposes.

 

 
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