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Year: 2019

Bye, bye backlog? Government measures to stimulate business in Brazil.

(BRPTO’s gazette of July 9th, 2019). The BRPTO published on July 9th, 2019 the long-waited rules implementing the BRPTO’s new project to reduce the patent Backlog. This project aims at reducing the number of pending applications by 80% until 2021 and the time taken by the BRPTO to grant a patent to about two years. […]

Brazilian PROSUL PPH now on phase III

(BRPTO’s gazette of July 2nd, 2019) The BRPTO published on July 2nd, 2019, Rule #242/2019 implementing phase III of the PROSUL PPH Pilot program, which is intended to speed up the examination of pending Brazilian applications with an application from the same family endowed with patentability requirements of novelty, non-obviousness and industrial applicability by one […]

The World’s Leading Patent Professionals

We are proud to share that Licks has been recognized as one of the top-end law firms on IAM 1000, for our patent contentious and litigation practice. The ranking also highlighted our excellent practitioners and cutting-edge wins in recent years, which has led to a swift expansion and a move to a larger location in […]

Notice for public comments to stablish regulation of registration of medicinal products based on Cannabis spp

The Brazilian FDA published the Notice for Public Comments 654 and 655, of June 13, 2019, to establish the regulation of registration of medicinal products based on Cannabis spp, and its derivatives and synthetic analogues technical, as well as the administrative requirements for its cultivation for medicinal and scientific purposes. The Public Consultation was approved […]

Patent law meeting in Japan

The Asian Patent Attorneys Association’s 17th General Assembly, as well as the organization’s 64th and 65th Council Meetings, will take place on November 13 to 17, in the Ginowan and Chatan areas of Okinawa, Japan. Licks Advogados will be represented by attorney law, Roberto Carapeto, research collaborator at Waseda University’s Research Center for the Legal […]