Today, April 26, the World Intellectual Property Day, also called "World IP Day" or "WIP-Day", is celebrated. The date was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and, for about two decades, a theme has been chosen in the year. For 2022, the focus will be on “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future”. The campaign aims to enable young people to discover how intellectual property rights can help them achieve their goals, generate income, turn ideas into reality, create jobs and positively impact the world around them.
The 31st Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro, after weighing all the interests at stake, upheld ABPI - Brazilian Intellectual Property Association requests in a public civil action lawsuit, which aims to secure resources for the BPTO to properly comply with its activities of examination and granting of patent and trademark rights.
“We must also learn how to be inclusive with our peers.”
Counsel in Brazil, Canada and Jamaica weigh what changes in foreign and local trademark filing strategies have meant, or will mean, for their practices.
On February 08, 2022, the BPTO (Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office) issued a notice informing that an apostille will be included in the Letters-Patent of patents covering pharmaceutical products/processes and equipment and/or materials for use in healthcare and also other technologies not related to the pharmaceutical/healthcare field, in cases wherein the patent was granted based on the 10-year rule validity term, but said term was adjusted based on the Brazilian Supreme Court’s decision to abolish this legal provision.
This article is part of a series reviewing the IP landscape in 2021.(1).
His article is part of a series reviewing the IP landscape in 2021.(1) This article looks particularly at an important development that took place with regard to the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO).
This article is part of a series reviewing the IP landscape in 2021. This article looks particularly at two important adjustments to the Brazilian trademark system that took place in the final quarter of 2021.
The year 2021 will go down in history. The second year of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus also represented landmark developments with respect to global vaccinations and the pharmaceutical sector.
After a long waiting period, on November 4 and 5, 2021, Brazil finally held the auction of the frequencies for 5G operation throughout the national territory.