Notification For Individual Fee In International Applications

The World Intellectual Property Organization vide its notification number 54/2019 dated August 16^th, 2019 has informed that the Government of Brazil has declared that an individual fee is required to be submitted for Brazil in respect of the following scenarios:

1. When Brazil is designated in an international application;
2. When Brazil is designated in a designation subsequent to an international registration;
3. . In respect of the renewal of an international registration in which Brazil has been designated.

SUBMISSION OF INDIVIDUAL FEE

Further, the Government of Brazil has also mentioned that the individual fee will have to be submitted in two different parts.

The first part is to be submitted when Brazil is designated in either an international application or as a subsequent designation. The second part will have to be submitted only when the National Institute of Industrial Property, which is the official government body responsible for Trademark