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Country profile
Population: 50 million
Capital: Bogotá
Currency: Colombian Peso
GDP: $712 billion
Internet Domain: .co
Official language: Spanish
Export Partners: US 33.5%, Panama 6.3% (2016)
Import Partners: US 26.4%, China 19.1%, Mexico 7.5%, Brazil 4.7% (2016)
PTO: www.sic.gov.co
Conventions
Convention Establishing WIPO
Hague Convention (Legalization)
Pan-American Conventions
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Renewal/Annuity Start
No extention possible
Renewal/Annuities
Grace Period
No provision
Conventions
Cartagena Agreement
Convention Establishing WIPO
Pan-American Conventions
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Renewal Start
10 years from registration date
Renewals
Every 10 years
Grace Period
6 months' grace with fine
Required Documents
Conventions
Bolivarian Convention for the protection of IP
Budapest Treaty (Microorganisms)
Cartagena Agreement
Colombian-Swiss Treaty
Convention Establishing WIPO
Franco-Colombian Convention
International Paris Convention (Stockholm Text)
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
Pan-American Conventions
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
Annuity Start
Annuities
Annually, after grant by the last day of the month of anniv of Filing Date
Grace Period
6 months' grace with fine
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