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Argentine Patent Office Issues Regulation Restricting Divisional Filings

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Ignacio Sanchez Echagüe -- The Argentine Patent Office (Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial, INPI) has issued Regulation No. 147/2010, which restricts the ability of applicants to file divisional applications once substantive examination has begun. The regulation, which went into effect on July 16, 2010, allows applicants to file divisional applications until notice of substantive examination has been served. No divisional applications will be allowed thereafter, unless they are made in response to a request from the Argentine Patent Office. Once substantive examination has begun, if the examiner finds that the application has more than one object, the applicant...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).