Dear Mr.
I¨ll like to let you know about our service in Ecuador. Bustamante & Bustamante is a law firm of national and international standing with one of the most reputable legal practices in Ecuador. Due to our reputation for integrity, professionalism and superior service, we have been able to advise national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governmental organizations of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy for nearly fifty years. We have one of the largest intellectual property practices in the country. In addition, we advise clients with regard to numerous other matters including oil and gas, project finance, tax, banking and financial services, corporate, mining, telecommunications, electrification, privatization, insurance, real estate, and labor law.
Our firm has earned the respect of domestic and international clientele and competing law firms due to the skill and concerted work ethics of its attorneys. More importantly, our clients and competitors respect Bustamante & Bustamante’s fervent commitment to honesty, loyalty and fairness. We ensure that each member of our legal and support staff understands the importance of ethical behavior, integrity and confidentiality. Attorneys and staff at Bustamante & Bustamante are unswerving in their commitment to acting ethically in all of the matters which they handle for the firm and its clients.
Bustamante & Bustamante guarantees excellent service by hiring and training the best legal personnel and support staff available. The firm employs fourteen partners, twenty-seven attorneys and eighty support staff of varied nationalities, who have studied and worked in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America and who are fluent in English and Spanish as well as other languages. Attorneys at Bustamante & Bustamante have received degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America. We also retain on staff one U.S. attorney who received a Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Our Mission
To offer clients our expertise in the protection and preservation of their individual and corporate intangible rights by preventing the wrongful use, counterfeiting or imitation of their industrial or intellectual property rights and by defending such rights and their business image through action against unfair competition.
Intellectual Property
Bustamante & Bustamante is one of the foremost Intellectual Property law firms in the Republic of Ecuador. We have been recognized by the English magazine Managing Intellectual Property as Ecuador’s best law firm for intellectual property matters.
Services
- Franchises
- Trademarks
- Patents
- Copyrights
- Wrongful use
- Unfair competition.
- Transfer of Technology
- Renewals and searches
- Utility models
- Industrial designs
- License Agreements
- Plant Breeds
- Peritaje Informática
- Electronic Commerce
- Domain Names
- Health Registrations
- Unified Health Registration
- Ichthyic Health Registration
- Health Notification (homologation)
- Product Code
- Litigation and Arbitration
Plant Breed Information
In accordance with Art. 248 of the Intellectual Property Law, “the issuance of a plant breed certificate protects all kinds and species of plants cultivated that entail an improvement of the plant inherited from plants so long as the cultivation and improvement are not forbidden for reasons of human, animal or plant health.”
Protection for wild species that have not been improved by man will not be provided.
The following are the requirements for filing an application for the registration of a plant breed:
ü Complete description of the procedure for obtaining a plant breed. The description must include:
- Genealogy
- Morphological, physiological, phitosanitary, phenologic, physical-chemical, industrial or agronomic characteristics that permit their identification in respect to analogous plants.
- Grounds for novelty, homogeneity, distinctiveness and stability.
- Geographical origin of the genetic materials that served as the basis for obtaining the breed to be protected.
- Reproduction or propagation mechanism.
- Photograph or any other technical element employed to illustrate morphological aspects.
1 Deposit of a live sample or document accrediting the deposit with a member authority of the UPOV, attaching the instructions that establish the principles, techniques and practices to administer the process of deposit of live samples.
2 Affidavit in respect to the marketing of the plant breed in the Andean Community and third countries
3 If priority will be claimed, a certified priority document together with a certification of filing issued by the appropriate office must be provided. Note that priority must be claimed in the registration application.
The costs for filing a plant breed application are:
Service
Professional fees for filing a Plant Breed Application
USD 1500.00
If you have any comments write please to contencioso@bustamante.com.ec
Dr. Enrique Chiriboga Barba
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