Welcome to GONZALEZ VILLALOBOS INTERNATIONAL. One of the main firms in Venezuela specialized in the registration of trademarks, patents, and designs with more than 80 years of uninterrupted experience advising national and international clients in the field of Industrial and Intellectual Property.
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ABOUT US
We are one of the first firms in Venezuela in the field of Industrial Property, recognized both nationally and internationally, with more than 80 years of uninterrupted experience.
Our history date back to the end of 1940 when our founder Mr. ATILIO GONZALEZ VILLALOBOS (1916-1986) Industrial Property Agent No. 20 began his professional activities with domestic clients under the name MARC-PAT whose function was to advise and obtain trademarks and patents.
In October 1954 the name was replaced by GONZALEZ VILLALOBOS Y ASOCIADOS.Due to the internationalization of the company with more than eight hundred clients and foreign correspondents, in May 1981 it was decided to adopt the name GONZALEZ VILLALOBOS INTERNATIONAL, which continues to be used to date in honor of our founder.
Throughout our history, we have advised inventors, natural persons, legal entities, and transnational companies (among others), for which we have acquired extensive experience in multiple inventive fields such as petroleum, chemistry, medicine, mechanics, electricity and electronics, computing, etc. Similarly, we currently handle more than four thousand trademark cases, including famous, notorious, and well-known trademarks.
Our goal, part of our vision and mission, is to become your first option for the processing and successful completion of any application or requirement related to Industrial and Intellectual Property in Venezuela.
TEAM
Nilda María Zambrano de González
Languages: Spanish
Arnaldo González Zambrano
Occupation: Attorney at Law, Patent and Trademark Attorney Education: UNIVERSIDAD SANTA MARÍA Focus on: Industrial and Intellectual Property, Private Law Languages: Spanish, English
Ana Chourio
Occupation: Attorney at Law Education: UNIVERSIDAD SANTA MARÍA Languages: Spanish
Miguel Rondón
Occupation: Attorney at Law Education: UNIVERSIDAD SANTA MARÍA Focus on: Criminal Law
Languages: Spanish
Duvis Suárez
Occupation: Attorney at Law Education: UNIVERSIDAD SANTA MARÍA Focus on: Civil Law
Languages: Spanish
Ramón Alemán
Occupation: Associate Degree in Informatics Education: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE TECNOLOGÍA VENEZUELA Languages: Spanish, English (Reading)
Arnaldo José González Baña
Jesús Peñalver
Languages: Spanish
Yajaira Pérez de Bravo
Languages: Spanish
IP Matters
Industrial property is a set of rights that a natural or legal person may have over a patent (invention, utility model, industrial design); as well as on a distinctive sign (trademark, commercial name, or commercial slogan).
Copyright protects the authors’ rights to overall creative works of ingenuity, whether literary, scientific, or artistic, whatever their genre, the form of expression, merit, or destination.
General
Objects that are part of the theory and practice of the legislation on Industrial and Intellectual Property in Venezuela and the World.
Patents
Objects related with the concept of Patent and its registration in Venezuela and the World.
Trademarks
Objects related to the concept of Mark and its Registration in Venezuela and the World.
Copyrights
Objects related to the concept of Copyright and its management in Venezuela and the World.
Trademarks
By obtaining the Certificate of Registration of your Trademark you get the rights to the exclusive use of it. The State allows you to restrict and act against unauthorized third parties that use products or services identical or similar to your trademark without your consent. The registration of your Trademark avoids confusion for the consuming public. Remember that your trademark is the sign intended to identify the products or services of your company and its protection makes the difference between you and your competitors.
Trademark registration contributes to projecting the image and reputation of the company’s products or services to its consumers, enhancing its value.
Trademarks can be the subject of various contracts such as transfers, licenses, and franchises, providing a source of income. It can be useful to obtain financing through a pledge guarantee. It represents a valuable business asset, for some companies the most valuable.
It is advisable to register a trademark before starting to market the products or services that will be distinguished with it since the property and exclusivity of use are obtained with its registration.
Types of trademarks
Trademark
Under the denomination of a trademark is understood, any sign, figure, drawing, word or combination of words, legend, and any other sign that is new, used by a natural or legal person to distinguish the articles that it produces, those with which it trades or its own company.
Trade name
A mark whose purpose is to distinguish an enterprise, business, exploitation or mercantile, industrial, agricultural or mining establishment.
Slogan
A mark consisting of a word, phrase, or legend used by an industrialist, merchant or farmer as a complement to a trademark or trade name.
Information and documents needed:
1) Power of Attorney (legalized).
2) Mention of goods and their class.
3) Copy of the design (if applicable)
4) Certified copy of the foreign application (only if priority is claimed)
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Patents
A patent is an exclusive right granted by the State for the protection of an invention.
Patents grant their owners exclusive rights that will allow them to use their invention and prevent third parties from using it without their consent. If you choose not to exploit your patent, you can sell it or give the rights to another company to license it, which will be a source of income.
The patent registration grants to holder exclusivity over the matter protected in said registration. That is, for a defined period of time, it grants the owner the right to be able to exclude other people from using, producing or marketing, without his authorization, what is protected by his granted patent and, therefore, grants the right to act against whoever uses, manufacture or market products that use, reproduce or incorporate what is protected by it.
Types of Patents
Patent
Any new and inventive product or procedure that provides a technical solution to a specific problem is known as a patentable invention.
Industrial Model
An industrial model is understood as any plastic combined or not with colors, and any industrial, commercial or domestic object or utensil that can serve as a type for the production or manufacture of others and that differs from its similar ones due to its different shape or configuration. Containers are included among the articles that can be protected as industrial models.
Industrial Drawing
An industrial drawing is understood as any arrangement or union of lines, colors and lines and colors intended to give any industrial object a special appearance.
The following, among others, may be the object of a patent:
1) All new and useful product.
2) Any new machine or tool and any new instrument for industrial use or medicinal, technical, or scientific application.
3) The parts or elements of machines and any new instrument for industrial use or medicinal, technical, or scientific application.
4) New procedures for the preparation of materials or objects for industrial or commercial use.
5) New procedures for the preparation of chemical products and the new methods of elaboration, extraction, and separation of natural substances.
6) Reforms, improvements, or modifications introduced in things already known.
7) Any new model or drawing for industrial use.
8) Any other invention or discovery capable of having an industrial application.
9) The invention, improvement or model, or industrial drawing that, having been patented abroad, has not been disclosed, patented, or implemented in Venezuela.
Information and documents needed:
1) Power of Attorney (legalized).
2) Inventor's Oath (with Assignment. Also legalized).
3) Specification, Memory, Claims, Summary and Drawings.
4) Certified copy of the foreign application (only if priority is claimed. Legalization is required).
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Copyrights
The Declaration of Human Rights recognizes intellectual property as a fundamental right, that is, as an instrument that protects the human rights of inventors.
This means that, just like the right to education or health, copyright is considered essential for the development of a country, in this case, for the development of cultural legacy.
Specifically, Article 27 describes the following:
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
The Venezuelan law recognizes and protects copyright in the same way as this agreement, the legislation is found in the Copyright Law.
In this sense, and given the advancement of technology that has allowed, increasingly, to consume and share large amounts of information, it is very important to remember that copyright is a human right because, in the future, it guarantees the maintenance of creative activity.
COPYRIGHT LAW TITLE I PROTECTED RIGHTS CHAPTER I GENERAL DISPOSITION FIRST SECTION ABOUT THE INGENY WORKS
Article 1.- The provisions of this Law protect the rights of authors overall creative works of the ingenuity, whether they are of a literary, scientific, or artistic nature, whatever their genre, a form of expression, merit, or destination. The rights recognized in this Law are independent of the property of the material object in which the work is incorporated and are not subject to compliance with any formality. The related rights referred to in Title IV of this law are also protected. Article 2.- They are considered among the works of ingenuity referred to in the previous article, especially the following: books, brochures and other literary, artistic and scientific writings, including computer programs, as well as their technical documentation and manuals of use; conferences, addresses, sermons and other works of the same nature; dramatic or dramatic-musical works, choreographic and pantomimic works whose scenic movement has been fixed in writing or in another form; musical compositions with or without words; cinematographic works and other audiovisual works expressed by any procedure; works of drawing, painting, architecture, engraving or lithography; works of applied art, other than mere models and industrial drawings; illustrations and geographical charts; plans, plastic works and sketches related to geography, topography, architecture or science; and, finally, any literary, scientific or artistic production that can be disclosed or published by any means or procedure. Article 3.- They are works of ingenuity other than the original work, translations, adaptations, transformations, or arrangements of other works, as well as anthologies or compilations of various works and databases, which due to the selection or arrangement of the themes are personal creations. Article 4.- The texts of laws, decrees, official regulations, public treaties, judicial decisions, and other official acts are not protected by this Law. Download here (only in Spanish language)Relevant information
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