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New "Luxury Home" Tax in Costa Rica Print E-mail
Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Costa Rica new “Luxury Home” Tax.  All home owners in Costa Rica are trying to understand how this new tax works and whether they should file a return and pay.
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Patent Assignments may be required by the PTO in PCT applications Print E-mail
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
The Patent and Trademark Office has recently imposed a new policy regarding PCT patent applications.
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New policy toward Co-Existence Agreements Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 October 2009
The Costa Rican Trademark Law does not contemplate any type of regulation regarding trademark coexistence agreements or letters of consent.
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Recent news from the TMO Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 October 2009
The Director of the National Registry´s Intelectual Property branch has issued, as a result of a growing number of inquieries, the following information regarding trademark searches and trade names, in a recent release:
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New operational proceedings for the TRA (Administrative Court) Print E-mail
Friday, 04 September 2009

The Executive Branch has recently prommulgated a new set of regulations that will have jurisdiction over the Administrative Court (Tribunal Registral Administrativo) that oversees all matters regarding the Costa Rican National Registry.

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