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Protection of trademarks, patents and copyright

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The legal framework for foreign investment02-marco-legal.md
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Trademarks, patents and copyrightlegal-propiedad-intelectual
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The Industrial Property Law (Decree 57-2000) covers trademarks and distinctive signs, invention patents, utility models, industrial designs, trade secrets and unfair competition. The Copyright and Related Rights Law (Decree 33-98) protects authors, performers, phonogram producers and broadcasters. The registry authority is the Intellectual Property Registry (RPI), attached to MINECO. The dossier carries no registration times or fees; it proposes tracking trademark and patent applications through WIPO IP Statistics.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

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