Year: 2020

BRPTO’s website notification ‍ The BRPTO’s new PPH Pilot program, issued under Rule#252/2019, is still receiving new participating patent offices. The BRPTO keeps notifying the Brazilian patent system users via its website about the new participating Offices. Up to this date, the following Offices have been confirmed in this new PPH program: The Austrian Patent […]

The COVID-19 outbreak and its economic and social impacts raises a question in Brazil: whether the country´s Data Privacy Act – LGPD, enacted on August 14, 2018 should be postponed, instead of becoming enforceable on August 16, 2020. Bills have already been presented before the National Congress seeking to delay enforcement of the LGPD. The […]