Fiji uses Patents Act 1879.
The Fiji Intellectual Property Office (“FIPO”)) operates manually and the patents data is not digitised.
An independent patent application filed in Fiji is valid for 14 years. Independent patent applications are sent to Australia for examination and is advertised for objections. From experience, it takes between 1 to 2 years for an independent patent application to be registered.
Alternatively, you can file an application based on a United Kingdom (“UK”) patent that was granted within 3 years. A UK based patent will be subject to the same duration. It has been noted that in practice an application based on a UK patent is registered more expeditiously.
We will require an Authorisation of Agent (Power of Attorney in many jurisdictions) to represent you in Fiji.
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