Generating patent applications from Peruvian universities

By Francisco Espinosa Reboa, Francisco Espinosa Bellido

The National Institute of Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) launched on 2011 a program called “Patent Generation in Peruvian Universities”, with the objective of promote innovation and research through universities and technological centers, and to legally protect the results of such work.

The results have been completely positive since Peruvian university patent applications have increased from a paltry average of two per year until 2010, to eighteen per year for 2011 and 2012.

The universities Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Agraria La Molina, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional del Santa, Ricardo Palma, César Vallejo and Alas Peruanas filed 16 patents in 2011 and 20 in 2012, with the technical assistance of Indecopi.

Espinosa Bellido Abogados

The Industrial Property work of Estudio Francisco Espinosa Bellido Abogados started in 1941 with Dr. Francisco Espinosa Sánchez, father of current senior partner Dr. Francisco Espinosa Bellido and grandfather of current partner Dr. Francisco Espinosa Reboa.

In its 69 years of outstanding legal work the firm has represented the interests of several national and international clients, companies and foreign correspondents obtaining and defending their industrial property rights in Peru, while also displaying an active and remarkable participation in the direction of professional associations in our speciality.

We specialize in counselling, prosecution and litigation in trademarks, patents, trade names, slogans, industrial designs, copyright, domain names, enforcement of those rights as well as unfair competition.

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