– Decree-Law No. 6673 of August 9, 1963 (Law No. 16.478) and subsequent Rules of Practice, amended by Law No. 27444 of June 18, 2018.

– Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Lisbon Act: Art. 1-12, Stockholm Act: Art. 13-30).
– Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), since October 8, 1980.
– The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille), in force since February 18, 1988.
– WTO’s TRIPS Agreement, since January 1, 1995.
– Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs, since May 9, 2009.

Applicant: individual or body corporate, i.e. inventor or his legal successor.

Filing requirements for an application: the same documents as required for “patents of invention“.

Examination: only as to the form.

Novelty: not published or worked within the country or abroad.

Granting: as from the application filing date.

Delivery of document: the registration certificate is issued in digital format only.

Duration – extension: five years, renewable twice for like periods for a total of fifteen years.

Cancellation of registered designs: only by sentence of the Argentine courts.

Marking of goods: not required.

Assignment: has no legal effect unless recorded at the Argentine Patent Office.