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Chile's Inventor Assistance Program Enters a New Phase: INAPI Publishes New Rules and Launches the PAI Portal

Chile's National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) announced on 25 September a new phase of the Inventor Assistance Program (PAI), the initiative created by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the World Economic Forum and run nationally by INAPI: the office formally published new programme rules setting out the administrative guidelines and the formal application requirements for local innovators, and launched the official portal pai.inapi.cl. Since Chile joined the programme in 2022, PAI has offered inventors facing economic or technical...