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28 Nov2024The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office released its 2023 Management Report, encompassing the results of its operations throughout that year bearing in mind the goals defined in the Strategic Plan f...
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08 Nov2024WIPO continually strives to positively influence the global IP System while maintaining its neutrality across different jurisdictions worldwide. In April 2024, WIPO issued a new strategy for Standard ...
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10 Oct2024Over recent years, Brazil has seen an intensification in patent litigation involving SEPs, with an exponential increase in lawsuits brought by both patent holders, NPEs (non-practicing entities), and ...
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13 Sep2024On August 13, 2024, the First Panel of the STJ (Superior Court of Justice) ruled that ANVISA – National Health Surveillance Agency – does not have the legal authority to impose restri...
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26 Aug2024Over the last few years, the spread of counterfeit goods on online sales platforms has become a noteworthy concern for Intellectual Property (“IP”) owners, manufacturers, consumers, and re...
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12 Jul2024For some years now, the litigation scenario involving SEPs in Brazil has been gaining relevance and the number of lawsuits filed by entities holding patents, sometimes NPEs (non-practicing entities), ...
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07 Jun2024Video games have been a huge obsession for many children, young people, and adults over the past decades – being part of their daily lives. The history of video games goes back to somewhen aroun...
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03 May2024On April 26, we celebrated World Intellectual Property Day, a date that invites people around the world to reflect on the contributions of intellectual property (IP) to technological innovation and th...
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05 Apr2024The battle against piracy is a persistent challenge in our society, and the unauthorized reproduction of products, misuse of intellectual property, and violation of copyright of intellectual works pos...
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01 Mar2024IP Litigation highlights Ana Paula Affonso Brito e Maria Eduarda Junqueira Patent Term Adjustment cases: the scenario after 2.5 years of the Supreme Court’s dec...
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06 Feb2024The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office released the ranking of the top applicants for industrial property rights residing in Brazil. a) Patents The highlight among the 50 largest ap...
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14 Dec2023Recently, the Brazilian master franchisee/licensee for the well-known brands STARBUCKS, TGI FRIDAY, and EATALY, filed for judicial financial reorganization protection und...
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30 Nov2023The protection of Industrial Property rights in Brazil is set forth in the constitutional and infra-constitutional plan, respectively by Article 5th, item XXIX of the Constitution of the Federative Re...
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09 Nov2023The Brazilian PTO hosted this week, from October 23rd to 27th, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the ninth meeting of the Experts’ Group for Semiconductor Technology (EGST). This is the first time that...
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03 Oct2023Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, announced his intention to reduce the patent examination process in Brazil to two years. Thus, in order to accompl...
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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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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...