Brazil´s Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has taken steps in recent months to try and reduce the enormous backlog of pending patent applications to be examined.

It is important to note that Bill no. 2,370/19 was not proposed by the Executive Branch.

Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary science that integrates concepts of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering and Informatics, based on the use of living organisms and biological systems...

When is a trademark a trademark? In an ideal world a trademark should be whatever is perceived as a trademark by consumers.

No mês passado, a Associação Brasileira de Franquias (ABF) divulgou os números de desempenho do franchising em 2015 e o que se nota é a manutenção de um crescimento impressionante.

Brazil is the largest market in Latin America. Every year, the Brazil Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) receives thousands of applications, most of them from foreign applicants.

The Superior Court of Justice recently issued a decision involving the multinational company Unilever. This reversed forty years of economic policies and represents a significant discouragement...

The BR PTO (the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office) has just released new instructions about the registration of international agreements involving industrial property.

When it comes to the civil procedure, it is undeniable that one of the first issues that comes to mind is perhaps the most important: deadlines.

In 2017, the number of pending patent applications awaiting a final decision was reduced by 7.6%.

Farella's Insurance Recovery Group lawyers regularly collaborate with and learn from different players and functions within the insurance industry.

In complement of Rule # 154 of December 21, 2015, the Brazilian PTO published today (January 30, 2018) Rule # 210/2018 of January 26, 2018, which extends until May 10, 2018 the period...

One of the most important jurists in Brazilian history, the former diplomat and lawyer Rui Barbosa, once said: "Delayed justice is not justice, but qualified and manifest injustice."

O mercado brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual entra no segundo semestre de 2018 em contagem regressiva. Copa do Mundo? Eleições? Não exatamente. O segmento tem um marco próprio a esperar: até o fim

Often clients, unaccustomed to Brazil, fret about the wrong problem, such as the backlog. Alternatively, they try to solve a problem with the wrong solution, like drafting a standard licensing...

Often clients, unaccustomed to Brazil, fret about the wrong problem, such as the backlog. Alternatively, they try to solve a problem with the wrong solution, like drafting a standard licensing agreement...

In Brazil, the three-dimensional trademark is defined in accordance with the concept adopted by the Brazilian PTO as the "sign consisting of its physical shape which is distinctive in itself...

O Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial - INPI iniciou em 17 de abril de 2012, o Programa Piloto de Patentes Verdes.

Em uma emblemática cena de um famoso filme do final dos anos 90, o cientista maluco Wayne Szalinski, interpretado por Rick Moranis...

At the end of 2016, the judge from the 43rd Civil Court of the Central Venue of São Paulo granted an interlocutory relief in favor of a well-known company that is involved in computers...