Updates 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 approximately 30,000 patent applications filed each year in Brazil, the Brazilian PTO implemented a project to reduce the patent backlog in August 2019. The objective was to reduce the number of pending patent applications in 80%, and the proposed goal was achieved in March 2022, around seven months ahead of the estimate.

During the months of December and January, there is what we call a Court Recess. This is a lapse of time in which the courts and other Institutions of the Brazilian judiciary stop working due to year-end festivities.

A very well-known problem faced by trademark owners in Brazil, especially trademarks that cover consumer goods, are the popular shopping malls in large cities, which are often distribution centers for counterfeit products.

Depresión, ansiedad, burnout, estrés...los problemas mentales son muchos y los sufren todos. Pese a todo, siguen siendo un tabú y una barrera para los profesionales que no pueden desarrollarse completamente.

As 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 an increasing scale. Today the use of AI isnotoriously recognized in several fields of application in everyday life, such as financial markets, industry, agriculture, transportation and even entertainment.

We are currently surrounded by software and apps in our daily routine and new ones appear every day with the aim of making our lives easier, whether in our personal life, professional life or even in our leisure time. This has become so common that it is hard to remember what everyday life was like without them.

Intellectual property (IP) is gaining increasing attention in numerous fields and countries, including Brazil, where we can see an exponential growth in new court actions aiming to enforce IP rights..

A Practice Note providing an overview of the general trademark application filing and prosecution process in the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI)). It addresses requirements for registration and typical trademark prosecution procedures, including responding to office actions in Brazil. It also addresses specific issues for counsel to consider during prosecution and to maintain the trademark registration once it is granted.

Since the beginning of its implementation on July 6 of this year, the 5th generation mobile network (5G) is already available to residents of 22 Brazilian state capitals. Due to the low amount of equipment and the global shortage of chips, implementation of the 5G network is happening at a very slow pace. Even in the country’s major cities, such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, network coverage is considerably lower than desired and initially proposed by ANATEL (National Telecommunications Agency), being especially concentrated in tourist areas and high-income neighborhoods.

How the result of the Brazilian presidential election could have a significant impact on the brand protection ecosystem in Brazil.