Requirements For Obtaining A Patent

A patent is a technical document with legal purposes. Technical because it must describe an industrial creation and legal because it defines a right to exclude unauthorized third parties from reproducing the invention¹.

Preliminarily, it must be clarified that in the national territory patents can be of two types: invention² and utility model³. It is important to highlight that creations of an ornamental nature (design) when applied to industrializable products can be protected by industrial design registration⁴.

It should be noted that the application for filing a patent application consists of a descriptive report, claims, drawings and summary. In patent applications that deal with products (articles, utensils, tools, devices, equipment, etc.), as well as in utility model applications, drawings are mandatory.