The norm, in detail
Biotech patents: the 2015 restriction falls
INPI Res. 197/2026
in forceNATIONAL
Market deregulation
Res. INPI 197/2026 repeals 283/2015, which restricted patents on living matter: seed and biotech firms return to the international standard.
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
INPI Resolución 197/2026 repeals INPI Resolución 283/2015, which amended the patentability Guidelines (Res. 243/2003, Part C, Ch. IV) and restricted the patenting of living matter and biotechnological developments. With the repeal, Argentina returns to a biotechnological-patentability criterion aligned with international standards. It is the biotech-agri piece of a larger deregulatory package: in March 2026 the joint pharmaceutical-patenting guidelines had already been repealed (Joint Res. 118/2012, 546/2012 and 107/2012, via Joint Res. 1/2026). verif Jun 19, 2026 ↗
In force
06/20/2026 (the day after publication in the Official Gazette of 06/19/2026). verif Jun 20, 2026 ↗
Are you in or out?
Biotechnology developers (seed companies, agricultural biotech, laboratories) seeking to patent inventions on living matter in Argentina. It broadens patentable subject matter relative to the restrictive criterion in force since 2015. A tension point to watch without assuming bad faith: pharma/biotech patenting reopens the debate of patents vs. the local generics industry, outside our's focus. verif Jun 19, 2026 ↗
The norm
Resolución 197/2026 of the Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial (INPI), signed on Jun 18, 2026 and published in the Boletín Oficial on Jun 19, 2026 (notice 343326). It repeals Resolución INPI 283/2015. verif Jun 19, 2026 ↗
Our reading
Fewer barriers to biotechnological patentability: by repealing the 2015 restriction, Argentina aligns with international patent standards on living matter and improves the incentive to invest in innovation, especially in agriculture (rule R4, deregulation / legal security). The seed sector welcomed the measure as a pro-investment signal in biotechnology. thesis
Where it lands, province by province
Applies the same nationwide
No effect lands differently in any one province: it applies the same across the country.
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