We are very proud to share the most recent guide published by Leaders League in Brazil: “Innovation Technology & Intellectual Property”. Licks Attorneys has been distinguished as a leading law firm in its core practices: Patent Litigation, Life Sciences, Technology. The Firm has also been recognized for its Trademark Litigation practice, ranked for the first […]
China merges its three antitrust agencies into a single authorityThe Chinese government has approved a major institutional reform that consolidated its three competition agencies into a new super governmental agency.The three former agencies integrated are:• The Price Supervision and Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which analyzed price related conduct.• The […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of May 08 th , 2018) The Brazilian PTO issued today, on its gazette #2470, Rule #217/2018, which modifies Rule #80/2013, on fast-track examination of patent applications and patents related to pharmaceutical products and processes.In addition to patent applications related to cancer, HIV and neglected diseases, patent applications related to rare diseases are […]
The BRPTO published on May 8, 2018, Rule #218/2018 implementing Phase II of the PPH Pilot program with the USPTO. Most relevant is the expansion of technologies eligible for PPH, now embracing applications claiming IT arts, which has the longest examination pendency at the BRPTO. Rule #218/2018 also indicates more International Patent Classifications (IPCs) related […]
