Summary

The registration proceeding concerning patents, industrial designs and utility models, are quite different form a trademark registration proceeding, a quite different terms of protection, and for these special issues, there is no possible renewal to be asked, when the term of protection expired, the only exception is for the industrial design which could be renewable just for an extra term of 5 years, just once.

The approximate period of time to obtain a patent registrations as well as to obtain a utility model registration, could vary between 2 years or 2 years and 6 months. Concerning industrial designs the approximate period of time to obtain its final registration, may vary between 1 year and 6 months to 2 years.