Registration Of Trademarks, Commercial Names, And Advertising Slogans In Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, the rights to industrial and intellectual property are guaranteed by the Constitution, which in its Section 47 states that "Any author, inventor, producer or merchant shall temporarily have the exclusive property of its inventions, trademarks and commercial names, all according to the law". Trademarks, commercial names and the advertising slogans are distinction signs regulated in this country by the Law of Trademarks and other Distinction Signs, No. 7978 of January 6, 2000, and its Regulations.

Costa Rica is also a signatory of several international agreements related to intellectual and industrial property rights (TRIPS, Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Convention establishing WIPO, Bern Convention, among others).

Definitionof "Trademark", "Commercial Name" and "Advertising Slogans" According to CostaRican Laws and Regulations:

TYPES AND CLASIFICATION OF DISTINCTION SIGNS

1. TRADEMARK: Section Two of the Law of Trademarks and other Distinction Signs defines "trademark" as: "any sign or combination of signs that allows the distinction between the goods or services belonging to a person from the ones belonging to another person, for the reason of such being considered sufficiently different or capable of identifying the goods or services to which they apply, before the ones in their same species or class". Trademarks may be constituted by words or word combinations, letters, numbers, graphical elements, figures, monograms, pictures, labels, patterns, illustrations, among others, as well as by the form or presentation of products or...