New trademark fees in Argentina

By Estudio Chaloupka

Through Resolution 122/2022, the National Institute of Industrial Property of Argentina (INPI) updated its trademark fees to keep up with administrative standards, procedures and services carried out electronically and through the website.

According to the resolution, INPI’s trademark fees were not updated since July 2019, which generated an impact on the Office’s income.

“The final beneficiaries of the decision are Argentinian individuals, entrepreneurs, small and medium sized enterprises, companies, universities and research centers,” INPI stated in its resolution.

The new fees also look to adapt to a 2019 resolution that mandated the filing of a single trademark application for each class of goods or services under the Nice Agreement and to reject applications involving more than one class.

This pushed applicants to file for goods or services within a specific class of the Nice International Classification and avoided single trademark applications and speculative registrations that filed for all goods or services without an effective use.

However, although the new regulation prevented to file for the universality of goods and services among different classes, an abusive use was detected as applicants select all goods or services listed within the same class for the same tariff.