In an increasingly competitive global environment, the protection of intangible assets has become an essential element for the development and consolidation of businesses. In the Republic of Panama, intellectual property has a solid legal framework that allows the registration, protection, and effective defense of rights over creations, innovations, and distinctive signs.
The entity responsible for the administration and supervision of these rights is the General Directorate of Intellectual Property (DIGERPI), attached to the Ministry of Commerce and Industries, the body in charge of the registration and control of patents, trademarks, and copyrights in the country.
At WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES, we provide comprehensive legal advice in matters of intellectual property, accompanying our clients in the strategic protection of their intangible assets. Our services include the registration and protection of trademarks, trade names, patents, utility models, and copyrights, as well as the structuring of legal strategies intended to safeguard commercial identity, technological innovations, and creative works.
Likewise, we represent our clients in administrative proceedings and legal actions intended to prevent or combat misuse, infringement, or unauthorized exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Panamanian legislation contemplates civil, criminal, and administrative mechanisms to sanction such conduct, in addition to special measures aimed at combating counterfeiting and piracy, including customs controls and enforcement procedures.
Our approach combines legal knowledge, strategic vision, and understanding of the business environment, with the objective of guaranteeing that our clients’ creations, innovations, and trademarks are duly protected and positioned within the national and international market.
All artistic works such as literary, are developments of human knowledge that have abstract values themselves because they are likely to represent a translatable active in money, and consequently demand for its heritage value care to be untapped illegally and unjustly by others who do not have ownership of those rights.
That’s why the creators of artistic works that have a market value, should preferably register their work to prevent illegal copying and unfair competition from third parties taking advantage of the development of knowledge and creativity of others.
The advantages of brands are that they help us differentiate a service or product from one another, permitting this distinction, establish certain individualities for the customer of the product or service not to confuse it with the competitor and that way competitors take unfairly positioning of our brand and the customer also harms getting what you do not want to get.
For registration you need to provided that the brands are organized by their nature depending on their use or the essence for what is registered, and that has been called classes of the brands. Therefore, it is imperative to carry out the registration of a trademark is expressed exhaustively in that class you want to register it, since brand protection is directly related to the type of class in which it is registered. There are 45 classes, which are spread over 11 different types for services and 34 different types corresponding to the products.
Panamanian law through Law 35 of 1996, has also laid the protection of industrial property, which is based on promoting respect for intellectual effort and material for those who have produced inventions or utility models and that have protected by a patent. Of course, in order to register an invention it is universally accepted that this invention, it must be new and of course meet certain requirements, so that it can be obtained the patent for the invention and thus able to enjoy the exclusive exploitation rights of the invention.
