South America:

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Central America and The Caribbean:

Anguilla, Antillas Holandeas, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Islas Virgenes Britanicas, Islas Cayman, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, Guadalupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Virgin Islands (USA), Jamaica, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, San Cristóbal and Nieves, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos.

North America:

Canada, USA and Mexico.

In Latin America, we have the following treaties:

The Cartagena Convention:

The registration and its procedure are ruled by the Decision 486 of the Cartagena Convention, Community regulation in the scope of the Andean Community of the Nations.

Member countries:

Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

Madrid vertrag:

The System of Madrid offers to the owner of a Trademark, the possibility of protection in several countries, through filing a unique application directly in its own Trademark Office either national o regional. This system also simplifies, at great extend, the subsequent procedure of the Trademark, owing to the fact that a sole administrative procedure, subsequent changes or renewals of the registrations could be done. Furthermore, this system facilitates the subsequent designation posterior I other countries.

Member countries:

Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Paris Convention:

If a Trademark is filed by a native from a member country of this Convention (Union),or in any member country, the filing could not be denied or invalidate with the argument that it has not been filed, registered or renovate in the country of origin.

Member countries:

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The period of validity of a Trademark is ten years, counted from the grated date of the registration and could be renovated indefinitely by periods of the same duration; and classified according to the “International Classification of Products and Services of Niza’s Agreement”.