BRPTO’s website notification The BRPTO’s new PPH Pilot program, issued under Rule #252/2019, is still receiving new participating Patent Offices. On April 1st, 2020 the BRPTO notified the Brazilian patent system users via its website about the outset of the cooperation program with KIPO. Up to this date, the following Offices have been confirmed in […]
Author Considering COVID-19, on March 19, 2020, the Brazilian Board of Justice (“CNJ”) issued a resolution² applicable to all Brazilian Courts that (i) suspended time frames by April 30, 2020; and (ii) established a judicial duty for the same period. According to the resolution, the courts must guarantee basic services, such as efficient analysis of […]
By early 2019, the number of regularly filed, duly published and pending patent applications awaiting examination before the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (“BRPTO”) reached unprecedent levels.According to the BRPTO’s former President, Mr. Luiz Olavo Pimentel, by 2018 there were more than two hundred and thirty thousand (230,000) patent applications on hold, and a pendency […]
O direito de acesso à justiça é reconhecido como direito humano e princípio de natureza constitucional nos ordenamentos jurídicos de Estados Democráticos¹. A Constituição Federal brasileira, por sua vez, consagra o direito de acesso à justiça em seu art. 5º, inciso XXXV, o qual assegura a todos o direito de socorrer-se aos órgãos do Poder […]
As scientists and pharmaceutical companies rush to find a vaccine against COVID-19, it is important to take into consideration not only the regulatory legislation on the development of new vaccines and drugs, but also to consider the applicability of laws on access to genetic resources. According to the Brazilian Law 13,123/2015, any microorganism, such as […]
