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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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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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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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03 Jun2021The plan implemented by the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) to tackle the patent backlog reduced in 51.2% pending patent applications in 2020, according to data provided by the Of...
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23 Mar2021Under Brazilian law, the injured party in an infringement lawsuit can request compensatory damages in addition to obtaining a court order that the infringing practice be ceased. Such d...
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12 Feb2021The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office celebrated its 50th anniversary in a ceremony held on the 11th of December. At the event, the special government body of the Ministry of Econo...