P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 686
A Committee for the Promotion of Invention Patents and Registration of Discoveries in Puerto Rico is hereby created, to be composed by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico Campus in Mayagüez, the Director of the Agricultural Experimental Station, the Director of the Science and Technology Office of the Industrial Development Company, the Patents and Registers Engineer, the Director of the Educational Inventions and Innovations Center of the Department of Education or their designated representatives. The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company is hereby empowered and authorized to create the Office of the Patents and Registers Engineer and to assign to the same the qualified personnel, specifying the functions of the Patent Engineer and providing the technical and administrative assistance needed to carry out the duties of his/her office.
History —Mar. 20, 1951, No. 35, p. 84, § 2; Jan. 24, 1968, No. 1-A, p. 3, § 3; July 23, 1974, No. 163, Part 1, p. 745, § 3; July 6, 1978, No. 97, p. 294, § 1; Sept. 22, 2004, No. 436, § 2.