If two or more persons have made an invention independently of each other, the right to the industrial property title shall belong to the person who can prove the earliest date of filing.
Prior to grant of a patent and on a reasoned request, the applicant or his representative may request rectification of linguistic or transcription errors and of material errors discovered in the elements and documents filed. The decision shall rest on the Industrial Property Office.
YES, within 12 months from the first filing date. A written priority declaration stating the date, number and country of origin of such filing to be made on the date of the filing of the application is needed.
Where, on the filing date, the application file lacks one or more of the elements to be attached to the required documents (i.e. description), the applicant shall be given a period of 3 months as from the filing date in order to regularize the file.
