What we do
We accompany a trademark throughout its life cycle: from the preliminary risk assessment to post-registration watching.
- Clearance searches and registrability analysis before filing.
- Filing and prosecution of applications for goods and service marks, in the Nice classes that match the activity.
- Responses to DINAPI office actions and defence of the application during prosecution.
- Renewals, assignments, changes of name and address, and recordal of licences.
- Portfolio management: deadline control, status reports and protection strategy by class.
- Trademark watching: detection of identical or similar third-party applications and assessment of the action needed to defend the owner's rights.
Key facts
How registration works
A trademark in Paraguay is registered before the National Directorate of Intellectual Property (DINAPI). In general terms, the application goes through a formal examination, publication, an opposition period and a substantive examination before it may be granted.
Timelines may vary depending on the circumstances of each application and on whether office actions or oppositions arise. For every matter we keep the client informed of its status and the next steps.
For international clients and foreign associates
Paraguay is not a member of the Madrid Protocol: extending a foreign trademark to the country means filing a national application through a local agent. We take instructions, set out the documentary requirements and per-class costs, file the application claiming Paris Convention priority where applicable, and report every stage with the clarity a head office or an associate firm expects.
