Notifications
Date: September 17, 2018
The National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile notified the International Bureau that, in accordance with paragraphs 10 and 12 of the Framework Provisions that came into effect on July 1, 2012, it would commence operation both as a Participating and an Accessing Office of the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS) with effect from October 1, 2018, with the following technical and operational options:
- INAPI as a depositing Office will deposit certified copies of patent, utility model and industrial design applications as priority documents, including PCT applications filed at the Office on and after 01.10.2018, which the applicant specifically requests be made available to the Service
- INAPI as an accessing Office will recognize priority documents available to it through the Service for the purposes of any application for which the time for furnishing the priority document has not expired by 10.2018.
- All documents and information will be exchanged in PDF format through the WIPO DAS Office web portal and based on WIPO PCT-EDI;
- As an Accessing Office. the Office will accept color, greyscale black and white documents in PDF format as deposited by depositing Office.
Practical information
- A request to the Office to make an application available through the Service may be made by sending a letter clearly stating the relevant application number and indicating that it should be made available to WIPO Digital Access Service;
- To request the Office as accessing Office to retrieve the document from the service, the applicant should send a letter to the Office.
- The national and international applications hosted in the library will have the respective number formats CL NNNNN-YYYY and PCT/CLYYYY/NNNNNN.