If you have your trademarks registered in other countries and consider that such registration(s) will protect your trademark as well as your business and operation in Costa Rica, you better reconsider your position since that is not correct. The registration of your industrial property before having an operation in Costa Rica is crucial, in order […]

Free Trade Zone beneficiaries in Costa Rica must be included in one or several of the categories specifically established by law.  As part of such categories, there are currently important service providers, commercialization companies, and manufacturing companies, such as the ones part of the flourishing Costa Rican medical cluster. The Free Trade Zone Regime in […]

One of the functions of the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Works and Transportation is to regulate the use, access, exits, circulation and vehicle traffic on national highways.  There are regulations in the country to ensure thatthe construction of pathways for either entering or exiting a national route from and to a property in Costa […]

Due to the important immigration volume currently existing in Costa Rica, the 2010 modification to the General Immigration Law included a penalty system imposed on individuals who enter Costa Rica as tourists or under any other permanence category and remain in Costa Rican territory beyond the term granted in their tourist visa or without the […]