“Intellectual Property”

We are now living in a globalized and highly competitive world, our commitment is to provide a team of professionals that are highly specialized in legal subject matters in order to attend to the needs, issues and/or question of our clients in the most responsive and efficient way possible; providing business solutions and strategies that protect their interest through Commercial Law.

Our Law firm has a department called RudelMark, which specializes in the Registration of Commercial Trademarks, including: Commercial Names, Industrial Trademarks and Signs of Propaganda, Registration Renewal, Transfer and License of Use, Nullification Procedures and Registration Cancellations, Copyrights and other distinctive signs in Costa Rica, Procedures for the Defense of Rights from the Registration of Industrial Property, Civil and Criminal Tribunals. The Denominations of Origin in Costa Rica are regulated by the Law of Trademarks and other distinctive signs, No. 7879 of December 22nd 1999. The registration of a Denomination of Origin has an indefinite duration.

Trademarks in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, rights on industrial and intellectual property are guaranteed under the Political Constitution; Article 47 states that, “Any author, inventor, producer or trader will temporarily enjoy exclusive ownership on their work, invention, commercial trademark or name in arrangement with the Law”. Commercial Trademarks and Names are regulated in this country by the Central American Agreement for the Protection of Industrial Property, and by the recent Law of Trademarks and other Distinctive Signs, No. 7978 of January 6th 2000.