P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 687
The Director of the Science and Technology Office who shall be the Chairperson of said Committee, shall call a meeting at least once every two months or before, if the number of inventions submitted for evaluation so merits, to evaluate the applications received on invention patents or registration of discoveries. The Patent Engineer shall summon by mail the person who has made the application to a private hearing before the Committee in which the latter shall succinctly explain his/her invention or discovery and leave the plans and description of the process or device with the Committee or the Patent Engineer for study. The Committee shall decide, no later than thirty (30) days after the hearing has been held, whether the invention or discovery merits participation in the Patent Promotion Program created by §§ 685—695b of this title. It is decided that the invention or discovery does not merit participating in the Patent Promotion Program, the interested party shall be so informed, who may then personally take the necessary steps to patent his/her invention or register his/her discovery. In such a case, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company would have no share in the profits received by the inventor or discoverer.
History —Mar. 20, 1951, No. 35, p. 84, § 3; Jan. 24, 1968, No. 1-A, p. 3, § 4; July 23, 1974, No. 163, Part 1, p. 745, § 4; July 6, 1978, No. 97, p. 294, § 2; Sept. 22, 2004, No. 436, § 3.