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14 Sep2023The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published, in the Industrial Property Gazette 2749 of September 12, 2023, Ordinance No. 36, which establishes the second edition of the Industrial Desi...
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05 Sep2023The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO) has, in recent years, improved in terms of providing clear and detailed guidelines for examination of patent applications in the Life Sciences. ln par...
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The registration of a trademark gives the owner the right of exclusive use of the mark, in the negative aspect of this right, empowers the owner to prohibit third parties from using the mark without h...
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07 Aug2023The automation of the great majority of human's dynamic developments is a fact that should be classified as inevitable. Said automation along with many other activities that go beyond the sphere o...
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When we talk about descriptive trademarks, we refer to those signs that are exclusively made up of denominations that directly inform the consumer about one or several of the essential characteristics...
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28 Apr2023After decades of walking slowly, AI seems to be accelerating towards a future full of lights. In November 2022, ChatGPT was launched and, almost5 days after its launch, more than a million people had ...
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31 Jan2023On December 30, 2022, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (“INPI”) published the minutes of the SEI INPI 0747049 meeting, which simplifies a series of points with legal aspects and t...
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19 Jan2023Updates on the Brazilian PTO Plan to Reduce the Backlog in Technical Examination - Triggered by the urgent need for improvements on the timeframe to analyze and decide on the patentability of the...
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20 Dec2022As a result of the great technological advances achieved in recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become popular and, thus, research and technologies making use of it are being developed on a...
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30 Nov2022The evolution of the right to the protection of personal data is an element of today's society marked by globalization and rapid technological evolution. Globalization has generated s...
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04 Nov2022With the recent approval of the TPP-11 by the Chilean Congress, our country has started the final stages of the necessary steps before it enters into the aforementioned commercial treaty, th...
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21 Sep2022It is usual that pharmaceutical trademarks contain commonly used terms, so they are formed by the combination of elements such as prefixes, suffixes or commonly used words that evoke somehow an idea a...
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01 Jul2022Almost one year ago, the Brazilian Supreme Court has finally judged the lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the sole paragraph of article 40 of the Brazilian IP Law (ADI 5,529). ADI 5,529...
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19 May2022A new IP law, No. 21.355, enter into force on May 9, 2022, modifying some articles of the current IP Law No. 19.039 dated 1991 and its subsequent amendments. This new law introduces important mo...
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The consumer is undoubtedly the most important character when talking about brands and this is because brands exist in the minds of consumers and depends a lot on the idea or concept that they have to...
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23 Mar2022This article looks particularly at developments that took place in the field of patents. Brazilian Supreme Court Decision on Patent Term Validity On May 6, 2021, the Brazilian Supreme Court has dec...
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16 Dec2021Throughout the world history, a critical function of the civil justice system has been the deterrence of illicit practices through the imposition of monetary liability upon bad actors. Punitiv...
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01 Sep2021Over the last 5 years, the Brazilian Patent Office has been adopting measures to reduce the backlog in patent examination combined with several improvements in its examination guidelines to pe...
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13 Jul2021After a long discussion involving a lengthy and detailed vote of the Reporting Justice Mr. Dias Toffoli, the Brazilian Supreme Court decided that the sole paragraph of Section 40 of the Brazil...
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The latest changes in the Trademark Law established important modifications to the operation of the cancellation system in Argentina. We consider that it is important to stay updated o...