Register your trademark
in Bolivia with us

A trademark is a distinctive sign, symbol or expression used to identify the products or services of a company from those of another. It guarantees the genuineness of the product of service, and gives its holder the legal rights to avoid their trademark’s unauthorized use.

• It is the only way of obtaining rights to the trademark.
• It provides national and/or local protection.
• It allows demonstrate ownership of the trademark.
• It helps discourage other people from using the trademark unlawfully.
• Trademarks allow your business to effectively utilize the social media and make your customers find you easily.
• If anyone uses your registered trademark, he/she will be presumed to be a willful infringer, and registering a trademark confers the ability to recover monetary damages as a result of the infringement.
• If you don’t register your trademark and someone else registers a trademark very similar to yours, you’ll have to change its name and spend a lot of money changing advertising. It’s also possible that you lose customers.

• Words
• Names
• Devices
• Certain three-dimensional shapes
• Colors (defined by a specific shape)
• Slogans
• Sounds
• Smells (olfactory trademarks)
• Trade dress/get-up
• Holograms
• Motions
• Taste
• Touch
• Anything that has distinctive capacity as long as it can be represented graphically.

Trademark protection in Bolivia lasts 10 years from the registration grant date and can be renewed every 10 years. A renewal application must be filed within six months before expiration date.

The approximate time from application to registration (for a prosecution without an opposition) is nine months.

An application is published for opposition purposes after formal examination of the application. The opposition period begins the day the official gazette is published and ends 30 administrative days, counted as of the first publication date.

• Name and address of the applicant.
• State or country of incorporation.
• Trademark description.
• List of goods or services provided.s
• Trademark representation.
• Power of attorney.
• Official filing fee.

• Joint applicants are permitted in Bolivia.
• Actual use or intent to use are not required for application.
• Local address for service must be provided if the applicant is not domiciled in this jurisdiction.
• The list of goods and services may specify the relevant class heading, a list of the common commercial names for the specific goods or services of interest and the relevant entire alphabetic class listing.
• In Bolivia, the type of registration available is national.
• All documents must be translated into Spanish.
• All signed documents must be legalized (apostilled).
• Bolivia uses the Nice Classification System.
• Bolivia is a member of the Paris Convention, the Nairobi Treaty, and the Nice Agreemen
• Bolivia is not a party to either the Madrid Agreement or the Madrid Protocol and may not be designated in international applications.
• European Union Trade Mark registration is not effective in Bolivia.
• Multinational regional registrations are not available in Bolivia.
• Applications cannot be filed online.
• The official file cannot be accessed online.

Actual use is not required for application in Bolivia.

If your trademark has been successfully registered and it is time for you to renew it, you can start the procedure six months before the expiration date. There is a six-month grace period to renew the trademark after the expiration date.

If you do not renew on time, you will need to file a complete new application.

No proof of use is required for renewal. Once renewed, it will be valid for another ten-year period starting from the previous expiration date.

Trademark renewal requirements:

• Name and address of the applicant.
• State or country of incorporation.
• Trademark name and representation.
• List of goods or services provided.
• Power of Attorney.
• Trademark registration number.
• Date of registration.
• Number and date of previous renewals.