Notifications
The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) notified the International Bureau in accordance with paragraphs 10 and 12 of the Framework Provisions that it would commence operation as a depositing and accessing office of the WIPO Digital Access Service with effect from July 1, 2024.
The technical and operational options adopted by the OCPI are as follows:
- The Directorate for Inventions and New Technologies, as a depositing Office, will deposit certified copies of patent applications for inventions, utility model patents and industrial designs as priority documents, including PCT applications filed with the Office on or after 1 July 2024 that the applicant specifically requests to be made available to the service.
- The Directorate for Inventions and New Technologies, as the Access Office, shall recognize priority documents which have been made available to it through the service, for the purposes of any application for which the time limit for the filing of the priority document has not expired before 1 July 2024.
- All documents and information will be exchanged in color, greyscale or black and white (depending on the requirements of the type of application) and in PDF format, via the WIPO DAS web portal for Offices.
- As an accessing Office, the Office will accept color, greyscale and black and white documents in PDF format deposited by the depositing Office.
- I therefore request WIPO to assist the Directorate of Inventions and New Technologies in the creation of Office user accounts and training for the use of the WIPO DAS for Offices web portal.
The following practical information may be useful for applicants:
- Requests to the Office to make an application available through the service can be made using the registration request form provided or by sending a letter/letter clearly indicating the relevant application number and stating that it should be made available to the WIPO Digital Access Service;
- To request the Office, as the Access Office, to retrieve a document from the service, the applicant should tick the relevant box next to the priority claim on the intended registration application form or send a letter/letter to the Office.
- The Office's national and international applications housed in the library will have the respective number formats: XXXXXXXX-YYYYYY and PCT/PEYYYYYY/NNNNNNNNN.
- Further details on the Office's participation in the service will be available on the Office's website.