Trademarks are protected in Argentina by the Argentine Trademarks Law No. 22362. The Argentine Trademarks Law defines what can be registered as a trademark (among others and with certain limitations, one or more words with or without conceptual meaning, drawings and images).

The Law states that a registered trademark lasts as such for a ten-year term. The term can be extended indefinitely for periods of ten years each if the trademark has been used within the five-year period prior to lapsing, in the marketing of a product, in the rendering of a service or as part of the identification of an activity.

The lapse of trademark registration is of five years, i.e., the registration of a trademark may be declared as lapsed if the trademark was not used within five years before the filing for such declaration is made.

Patent protection in Argentina is governed by Law No. 111 as well as by the 1883 Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property.

According to the Law, patents can be granted for a five, ten or fifteen-year period in accordance with the merit of the invention and the intention of whom requests the registration. Furthermore, the revalidation of a foreign patent is issued for a ten year period, though in no case it shall exceed the term granted for the original patent, with which it will expire.

Patent’s registration expire after two years of not being used.