Intellectual
property
protection
SINCE  1994 
 LAT | RUS | ENG


  • Membership
  • Address
Stabu str. 44, office 21
Riga, LV-1011, Latvia
Tel.:  + 371 67 35 66 41
         + 371 67 35 66 39
Fax:  + 371 67 32 43 54
e-mail: latiss@latiss.eu

Information and Documents required for filing a patent application for invention in the Republic of Latvia

/ Home / Filing requirements / in Latvia / Information and Documents required for filing a patent application for invention in the Republic of Latvia
  1. National patent application
    1. The Applicant's full name and address;
    2. Full name and address of inventor(s);
    3. Title of an invention;
    4. Claims and detailed description of invention;
    5. Drawings (if any);
    6. Abstract of disclosure;
    7. Priority date, country and number of the first application, if convention priority is claimed (certified copy of the first application must be supplied within three months after the filing date);
    8. Certificate of official or officially recognized international exhibition body, if exhibition priority is claimed (must be supplied within three months after the filing date);
    9. The document certifying the deposit of a micro-organism strain if the subject of invention is a micro-organism strain or the use of a micro-organism strain.
    Application may be filed in Latvian, English, German, French, Russian language. Description, claims, abstract and textual matters of drawings (if any) must be translated into Latvian language.

    The Patent office is entitled to demand Latvian or English translation of the priority documents.

  2. National phase of International (PCT) patent application (Latvia has closed its national route via the PCT with effect from 1 March 2007 in respect of all international applications filed on or after that date. For international applications filed before 1 March 2007 it is possible to validate a PCT application in Latvia).

    Filing requirements for validation of a PCT application in Latvia.
    1. The full name and address of the applicant;
    2. Full name and address of the inventor(s);
    3. Title of an invention;
    4. Detailed description of the invention and claims;
    5. Drawings (if any);
    6. Abstract of disclosure (All mentioned in points 2.4-2.6 should be without broadening of a scope of the invention and appropriate for reproduction);
    7. Title page of International publication;
    8. International Search report (and International Preliminary examination report if available).
    The due date for national entry of the PCT application is 31 months from the priority date (under PCT Articles 22 and 39(1) respectively).

    Please note that description, claims, abstract and textual matters of drawings (if any) must be translated into Latvian language.
3.    Validation of a European patent in the Republic of Latvia

1.    Translation of claims of granted European patent into Latvian language;

2.    One copy of the European patent  B publication (not necessary);

3.    Power of Attorney (notarization and/or legalization is not required).

These documents should be filed within three months from the date on which announcement of the grant of the European patent have been published by the EPO. Also the publication fee should be paid to the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia.

For all cases

Power of Attorney – may be used as General as Special (legalization or notarisation is not required; only name, signature, position of signing person, date and place must be indicated).
Power of Attorney may be supplied within three months after the filing date.

Assignment – from inventor to applicant is not required, only where the applicant/owner changes.

© Intelektuālā īpašuma juridiskā firma LATISS, 2006