One of the most critical aspects in the field of patents
is certainly territory. The applications used to protect the
creations of inventors and pioneers are not specifically
"universal" but instead, they must be filed in the states
or regions where protection is sought. The omission of a timely and
efficient filing may even result in the inability to claim that
right in other parts of the world.
Consequently, the conventions signed by and between different
states in this regard have become a useful tool for facilitating
procedures and reducing costs. Argentina became a contracting party
to the Paris Convention in 1966. This Convention allows inventors
to locally file patent applications and grants them a
one-year-grace period to replicate said application in any of the
more than 170 contracting parties to the Convention. Even though
this move represented an advancement at that moment, as time went
by, the Convention proved still insufficient.
