Protect your innovations strategically across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Patents are investments that require strategic thinking. Filing everywhere is expensive and often unnecessary. Filing nowhere leaves you exposed. Eproint helps you make smart decisions about where, when, and how to protect your innovations across the region — maximizing protection while optimizing costs.
Patent Filing & Prosecution
National/regional filings, PCT applications, office action responses, and grant procedures across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Utility Models
Protection for incremental innovations that don’t meet patentability thresholds. Faster registration and strategic filing across the region.
Industrial Designs
Product appearance protection and ornamental design registrations, coordinated with your broader brand and patent strategies.
Patent Annuities & Maintenance
Annuity payments, deadline management, status monitoring, and cost optimization for your patent portfolio.
Freedom-to-Operate Analysis
Patent landscape analysis, infringement risk assessment, and clearance opinions before launching in new markets.
Patent Litigation
Enforcement of patent rights, infringement actions, and defense strategies across the region’s court systems and administrative bodies.
Patent Linkage
Strategic management of patent linkage systems, connecting pharmaceutical patent protection with regulatory drug approval processes across jurisdictions.
Patent Term Extensions
Maximizing patent protection through term extensions, supplementary protection certificates, and restoration of patent terms lost during regulatory approval.
Data Exclusivity
Protection and enforcement of regulatory data exclusivity rights, preventing unauthorized reliance on proprietary clinical and safety data.
Pharma Related IP
Comprehensive intellectual property solutions for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, including compound patents, formulation protection, and regulatory strategy.
Plant Varieties & Breeders’ Rights
Protection for new plant varieties, breeders’ rights registration, and navigation of biotechnology and biodiversity regulatory requirements.
IP Strategy & Management
Strategic patent portfolio planning including landscape analysis, filing strategies, and coordinated regional approaches to maximize innovation protection.
Why Eproint for Patents?
- Technical Breadth: Experience across life sciences, technology, manufacturing, and more
- Strategic Filing: Smart decisions about where and when to file
- Cost Transparency: Clear budgeting and no surprises
- Prosecution Excellence: High grant rates through quality work
Ready to protect your innovations?
Frequently Asked Questions
No. There is no regional patent system for Latin America and the Caribbean comparable to the European Patent Office. Each country requires a separate patent application. However, an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) can be used as a basis for entering the national phase in multiple countries. Eproint coordinates PCT national phase entries and direct filings across the region.
Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean grant patents for new, inventive, and industrially applicable inventions, including mechanical devices, chemical compositions, pharmaceutical formulations, and certain software-related inventions. Some jurisdictions also offer utility model protection for incremental innovations with shorter examination periods. Eproint advises on the best protection strategy per jurisdiction.
Standard patent protection in most Latin American and Caribbean countries lasts 20 years from the filing date, consistent with TRIPS Agreement requirements. Utility models typically receive 10 years of protection. Maintenance fees must be paid annually or periodically in each jurisdiction to keep patents in force. Eproint manages renewal deadlines across all countries in the portfolio.