Os atuais modelos de Proteção de Dados no Mundo e a LGPD para a revista 160 da APBI (Associação Brasileira da Propriedade Intelectual).
É para se acompanhar com grande - e mais do que justificada - expectativa o anunciado plano de combate ao "Backlog" de Patentes - o estoque de pedidos pendentes de análise no Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) - pelos novos dirigentes da autarquia.
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For many years, Brazil has been known worldwide as a difficult country for doing business. There was a number of reasons for this, including the problems associated with obtaining patents within a reasonable timeframe.
The excessive delay of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) in conducting examinations of patent/trademark applications, appeals, assignments, oppositions, amongst other office actions, has been the source of widespread dissatisfaction for applicants in recent years, with some awaiting the conclusion of the examination process for over a decade.
One year before the Brazilian Data Protection Law becomes enforceable, the limits on privacy for the advertising industry are already being tested.
Brazilian patent practitioners, and in particular those working with the PCT, will remember that for many years there were simultaneously two different time limits for entering the National Phase, namely:
Considerada a maior e mais prestigiada rede de escritórios de advocacia empresarial no Brasil, a ALAE, através de seus membros, presta assistência jurídica a empresas que têm ou planejam ter negócios em diversos pontos de nosso país ou da América Latina.
If you never heard of FaceApp, a smartphone app that provides photo-transformations and recently went viral, you probably saw at least one friend, or a famous character, posting his or her AI-aged selfies on social media. And with the same speed that the Russian-developed app went viral, legal issues began to arise in several countries, including Brazil.
When it comes to Brazilian patent practice, the number 1 concern for applicants seeking protection for cosmetic methods is to explicitly differentiate the invention from a therapeutic method. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to think about a second prohibition contained in Article 10 (VIII) of Brazilian Intellectual Property Law: operating or surgical techniques.