Industrial Property Act

Patentability, application and examination, the rights conferred and their term, compulsory licences, assignment, lapse, and infringement.

Protection for a new technical improvement to the shape or structure of a product.

Registration of the new and original visual appearance of an industrial or handicraft product.

Registration, grounds for refusal, the rights conferred, and the protection of business names.

Protection of confidential commercial, technical, and financial information of economic value.

The duty to compete by honest practices, and the specific acts that breach it.

Offences and penalties for the infringement of industrial-property rights.

Specialised courts and examiners, the implementing regulation, and repeal of the prior law.