GENERAL NEWS
News |The BRPTO publishes new guidelines for examination of patent applications involving computer implemented inventions
01/05/2021In Industrial Property Gazette No. 2608, of December 29, 2020, the BRPTO published Ordinance No. 411, which sets forth the new Guidelines... Read More...
Firm News | The BRPTO published Ordinance No. 405/2020, of December 29, 2020, which regulates the presentation of the Sequence Listing in electronic format in patent applications
01/04/2021On December 29, 2020, by means of Industrial Property Gazette No. 2608, the BRPTO published Ordinance No. 405/2020, which provides for the... Read More...
Firm News | The BRPTO published Ordinance No. 404, of December 29, 2020, which anticipates and establishes Phase II of Pilot Project Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
01/04/2021The BRPTO published Ordinance No. 404, of December 29, 2020, which anticipates and establishes Phase II of Pilot Project Patent Prosecution... Read More...
News | The National Intellectual Property Strategy (ENPI) launched by Brazil’s Ministry of Economy
12/14/2020The National Intellectual Property Strategy (ENPI) was launched by Brazil’s Ministry of Economy on December 11, 2020. The launch took... Read More...
News | December 3 marks Brazil’s Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Biopiracy Day
12/03/2020December 3, 2020 marks Brazil’s Anti-Piracy and Anti-Biopiracy Day, created in 2005, by federal law, after approval in the national... Read More...
News | The BRPTO published the final version of its newest examination guidelines for biotechnology-related patent applications
12/02/2020The BRPTO has just published the final version of its newest examination guidelines for biotechnology-related patent applications, after... Read More...
News | ANVISA (the Brazilian Health Agency) published four important documents related to the examination of patent applications for pharmaceutical products and processes in accordance with article 229-C of the Industrial Property Law (Law 9279/96)
11/25/2020On November 19, 2020, ANVISA (the Brazilian Health Agency) published four important documents related to the examination of patent... Read More...
News | The public consultation opened by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovations to collect subsidies for the formulation of the National Innovation Strategy ends today
11/09/2020The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations (MCTI) opened a public consultation to gather information for the National Innovation... Read More...
News | Commission for Intellectual Property in Health (COMPIS) and the Group for Articulation of Intellectual Property and Health (GAPIS) created within Brazil’s Ministry of Health
10/30/2020Ordinance 2466/2020, published on October 15, 2020, created the Commission for Intellectual Property in Health (COMPIS) and the Group for... Read More...
News | Bhering Advogados’ Anti-Counterfeiting Department attends seizure operation of approximately 2 tons of counterfeit toys at Luz neighborhood in São Paulo
10/28/2020On October 23rd, 2020, Bhering Advogados accompanied agents of the State Department of Criminal Investigations (DEIC), and of the 1st... Read More...