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| IFIA M agazine - S ept ember 2019

FIRST INVENTOR

SELECTED FOR

IAP SUPPORT

IN

ECUADOR

2019 got off to a good start for the IAP in Ec- News referral:
uador as the National Screening Board met
for the first time and selected the very first https://www.wipo.int/iap/en/news/2019/news_0001.html
inventor to benefit from IAP support in Ec-
uador, Mr. Hector Chávez Gándara. Photo Caption:

Mr. Hector Chávez Gándara has a promising From left, The team at Paz Horowitz & Partners: Ms. Lorena
invention in the area of civil engineering and Sandoval, Associate and Coordinator of the Patents Area; Mr.
is being assisted by the law firm Paz Horow- Byron Robayo Arroyo, Partner; Mr. Bruce Horowitz, Counsel-
itz – one of the top intellectual property law lor and Founding Partner; and the inventor Mr. Hector Chávez
firms in the country – to help him secure Gándara (Photo: Paz Horowitz & Partners
patent protection for his invention.
What is the IAP?
The firm was the first to join the IAP in Ec-
uador and brings to the table many years of The IAP matches inventors under-resourced inventors with
experience in the area of patents as well as volunteer patent attorneys and agents that can help navigate
a team of highly qualified professionals. In the process of securing a patent. Eligible individual inventors
Ecuador, individual inventors and small-and and small and medium-sized enterprises from participating
medium-sized enterprise-scan apply to ben- countries can benefit from the IAP. In addition to Ecuador, in-
efit from the IAP if they met the necessary ventors from Colombia, Morocco, the Philippines, and South
requirements. Africa can apply.

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