– Industrial Property Act, 2001.
– Industrial Property Rules, 2001 (no information as to the date of entry into force is available).

– Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), with effect from March 16, 1994.
– Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Stockholm Act, since August 4, 2000.

Applicant: the inventor(s) or his assignee. 

Naming of the inventor: compulsory. 

Notion of the invention: must be new, involve an inventing step and be industrially applicable; it may be or relate to a product or a process. 

Novelty: worldwide novelty.

Not patentable: (a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods; (b) schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games; (c) methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, as well as diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body; this provision shall not apply to products for use in any of those methods.

Priority: may be claimed according to the Paris Convention.

Classification: international.

Filing requirements for an application (to be sent to resident agent):
1. Name, address, nationality and residence of the applicant and the inventor(s);
2. Power of attorney;
3. Specification and abstract;
4. Drawings in triplicate (A4 sheets with a usable surface area not exceeding 26.2 cm x 17 cm).

Examination: formal and substantive examination is carried out.

Publication: after granting in the Official Gazette. 

Duration: twenty years counted from the filing date.

Annual fees: must be paid.

Assignments and licensing: must be recorded.

Invalidation: any interested person may request the court or the Registrar to invalidate a patent.