What Is SAPI?: Brief Historical Review of The SAPI
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It is the Autonomous Service of Intellectual Property (SAPI), an organization
attached to the Ministry of Popular Power for Commerce, which exercises the
competence regarding intellectual property that corresponds to the State
Venezuelan, in the field of Copyright, Trademarks, and Patents.
Brief Historical Review of the SAPI
The SAPI was created by Decree No. 1,768 on March 25, 1997,
published in the Official Gazette No. 36,192 dated 04-24-97; enters into
operation on May 1, 1998 according to Ministerial Resolution No. 054 of
07-04-1998, published in Official Gazette No. 36,433 dated 15-04-98.
The creation of the SAPI has allowed for the unification under one organization the
Industrial Property and Copyright. This merger has made it possible
streamline and optimize the process of registration, protection, and dissemination of the
creations of the human intellect under the various schemes that operate
currently in the Venezuelan Intellectual Property System.
Organizational Structure
General Directorate, Directorate of Industrial Property Registration, Directorate
National Copyright Office, Legal Advisory Directorate, Directorate of
Administrative Support and Direction of Dissemination and Cooperation.
What does it deal with?
Everything related to the Intellectual Property Registry, which includes the
management of the concession of rights to inventors over their
creations, through invention patents, improvements, drawings, and designs
industrials; to merchants or individuals about the signs that
are used to distinguish their products and services in the market, through the
trademarks, trade names and slogans; the registration,
Oversight and inspection of copyright and related rights,
in the administrative field.
Objectives of the SAPI
Article 25
Copyright lasts for the whole life of the author and expires sixty years after their death.
counted from the first of January of the year following their death,
even regarding the works that were not published during their lifetime.
Article 26
For the works done in collaboration, the sixty years referred to
The previous article will begin to be counted from the first of January of the year.
next to the death of the collaborator who survives the others. No
however, the exploitation right of an audiovisual work, of a work
radio or a computer program, goes extinct at sixty years old
counted from the first of January of the year following their first
publication or, failing that, to its termination. This limitation does not
it affects the moral rights of each of the co-authors nor the right
established in the last section of article 10 of this Law.
Article 27
The copyright on anonymous or pseudonymous works expires after
sixty years counted from the first of January of the year following their
first publication. The date of this will be determined by any means of
test and especially for the legal deposit of the work. Such is not applicable
limitation in the cases provided in the sole paragraph of article 7, nor when,
within the indicated time frame, the author or their beneficiaries reveal their identity
from that in accordance with article 8 of this Law.
Regarding the anonymous or pseudonymous works published in form
stepped, the deadline begins to run on the first of January of the following year.
from the publication of each element. However, if the entirety is published
work within the twenty years following the publication of its first
element, the right over the entirety of it expires after sixty
years counted from the first of January of the year following that of the
publication of the last of its elements.
Article 28
Even after copyright has expired, the title cannot be used
a work under the conditions indicated in article 24 of this Law, in
harm to those who disclose the work.
Guidelines of the SAPI
Provide legal security through the protection of Property
Intellectual about artistic, scientific, technological works, patents,
designations of origin, plant varieties, brands, and other signs
distinctive.
Promote the development of the knowledge society through
dissemination of information on intellectual property, with the aim of
facilitate the technology transfer to the productive sectors and of
innovation.
Contribute to the protection and defense of collective intellectual property
of traditional knowledge, technologies, and innovations of the
indigenous peoples and local communities associated with use and conservation
of biological diversity.
Encourage intellectual creation by protecting copyright over the
works.
Cooperate and negotiate at the local, regional, and global levels, with the
States, organizations, and peoples, for protection and development
of intellectual property according to the fundamental principles of
the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Strengthening the social economy with the instrument of brands
collective.
Coordinate the administration of national and international agreements
for the consolidation of the National Intellectual Property System and
subscription of new commitments.
Promote the Use of Free Technologies and Artistic Creations.
TEAM'S POINT OF VIEW
The SAPI is an organization that protects the author from having their work not being able to be
plagiarized or pirated this gives the author a guarantee that their artistic work, book
the program, may not be sold or issued without your consent, the laws of
SAPI are very clear and specific regarding those who violate these.
rules.
But it is not only about protecting the author but also about helping social development.
environmental, technological, political. In this way, collaboration is achieved not only to
regional or national level, but globally so that everyone
let's get to know the advances and works of the different creators, designers,
programmers, etc.
It also promotes the encouragement of new projects and ideas for ownership.
intellectual, validating and respecting the credit by the author before his
original creation.
With this organization protecting our intellectual property rights
It will be easier to know what we do, why we do it, and if it already exists.
some idea similar to ours.
BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
MINISTRY OF POPULAR POWER FOR THE
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF THE STATE OF BOLIVAR
NATIONAL COMPUTER TRAINING PROGRAM
SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL PROJECT III
PATH III SIXTH SEMESTER
FACILITATOR: MEMBERS:
HECTOR NAVAZ. ANGEL PÉREZ ID 20.772.408
VITTORIO LO PRESTI ID 23.731.481
EIKERBETH RODRIGUEZ C.I 20.773.558
JOSE MEDINA C.I 23.729.645