The Autonomous Intellectual Property Service (SAPI) of Venezuela issue an Official notice that notifies an increase of the tax stamps needed to pay the renewal fees, the registration fees, the assignments, mergers, licenses, trademarks and patents and patent annuities.
BR Latin America does the ANNUITY PAYMENTS for you and a continually monitoring to your patents. The payment of maintenance fees, is a time consuming process for you because there's different procedures for every country, so we can help you with this.
Venezuela is an interesting market, especially since they became a member of the Mercosur system. This South American trading bloc is rather new.
Yet another promising international cooperation project has started, this time between the Swiss government -specifically, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property- and several IP-related Colombian institutions.