BRPTO On Track To Join World's Leading Patent Offices

In our previous article on May 15, 2020, we discussed the "Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO) Plan To Combat Patent Backlog in Brazil". The purpose of this article is to summarize other initiatives that the BRPTO has been implementing over the past year, in order to become more efficient and attempt to consolidate itself among the world's leading patent offices.

We will start with some short background about Brazilian patents, which is relevant in discussing the BRPTOs more promising position in terms of the next years:

• The exclusivity right of the patentee is guaranteed for 20 years from the filing date or 10 years after the grant of the patent, whichever is longer;