On January 27, 2016, the Uruguayan National Directorate of
Industrial Property (DNPI) published Resolution No. 02/2016, which
states that applicants of pending patent applications filed before
2010 will receive an Office Action to clarify to the DNPI whether
or not they wish to continue with the prosecution of the
applications.
The resolution neither clarifies how the notifications to patent
applicants will be implemented nor specifies the deadlines for
response. Both aspects are still to be defined by the PTO. However,
according to the Regulations to the Patent Law, the period of time
to respond to an Office Action is 30 days.
Resolution No. 02/2016 is aimed at reducing the current backlog
of examinations for patent applications by identifying those patent
applications which are still important to their applicants, and
then only those will be examined.
