Cocoa pods, the highlight of a new patent week in Peru

By Espinosa Bellido Abogados

From November 19 to 26, 2018, Peru carried out a new edition of its Patent Week, closed with the awards ceremony of its V International Contest of Patents and Inventions.

In its 2018 edition, the contest organized by the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi) was centered around patents “as a pillar for the generation of business opportunities”. Therefore most creations of Peruvians students, entrepreneurs and inventors were aimed at highlighting the strategic use of patents as a key development of technological ventures, as well as on the relationship between patents and inventions with business tools such as marketing, technology transfer and design thinking, among others.

The winner of the contest was a procedure for the protection of cocoa pods in a biodegradable way, created by Daniel Pino Valdivia and Enrique Castañeda Tuesta, who received USD 4,000 to develop their invention, a patent application and Indecopi’s technicians counseling for IP protection and promotion in a national and International scale. Pino Valdivia and Castañeda Tuesta’s projects looks to keep cocoa pods free of pests and diseases by applying a procedure that uses biodegradable bags, thus avoiding the loss of the harvest.