The relevance of the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2019 - Year of Exports
The International Seminar "PCT - The Relevance of the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2019 - Year of Exports" was held this morning at the premises of the Argentine Confederation of Medium-sized Enterprises (CAME).
To a full room and with a wide repercussion, national and international speakers presented the existing problems when patenting abroad and the benefits of belonging to a treaty that simplifies the obtaining of international protection of innovations.
The Seminar was attended by prominent speakers such as the Deputy of the Nation, Cornelia Schmidt Liermann; the Secretary of SMEs Entrepreneurs of the Ministry of Production and Labor, Mariano Mayer; the President of the National Institute of Industrial Property, Dámaso Pardo, and the First Vice-President of the Argentine Confederation of Medium-sized Companies, Diego Navarro, and the Secretary of Institutional Relations of CAME, Fabián Castillo, among others.
With praise for the procedures to achieve international protection through the Treaty and a deep analysis of the current Argentine regulations and bureaucracy, speaker after speaker added their voices in favor of Argentina's accession to the Treaty.
Regarding the need for a policy focused on national innovation and exports, Congresswoman Cornelia Schmidt Liermann opened the first panel and said: "Innovation and development without investment does not exist; but to invest you need guarantees, and the PCT is a spectacular place to find those guarantees that the world needs". He urged his colleagues in the National Congress to be aware of the need to have a policy for the benefit of inventions that make the market economy.
In reference to the benefits of joining the PCT, Dámaso Pardo emphasized: "PCT simplifies and lowers the costs for those innovators who intend to protect their inventions in several countries". He added: "It is essential that we, as a country, facilitate access to the protection of their inventions for all innovators".
In one of the panels where the "Simplification of patenting processes" was discussed, Pedro Inchauspe, Secretary of Productive Simplification remarked: "We carried out a deep transformation work together with the INPI that included the digitalization and simplification of registrations and procedures related to trademarks, patents and industrial models. We understand that when we shorten deadlines and reduce the bureaucratic burden for the entrepreneur or inventor who comes to register his trademark or design, we are collaborating in his development, fostering innovation and allowing more productive projects to be born. This is our proposal for an increasingly simpler State".
To conclude the meeting, Mariano Mayer said: "It is a pity that we do not have the PCT approved. We have to do everything we can to help entrepreneurs and researchers to protect their inventions in a modern and agile way, which will allow them to go out and import to the world".
SOURCE: INPI ARGENTINA
