(BRPTO’s gazette of April 20, 2021) Yesterday, more patents were granted with a reduced term of protection due to the preliminary injunction (PI) granted by Reporting-Justice Toffoli on April 7. You can learn more about Reporting-Justice Toffoli PI in our client alert from April 12, 2021. In its Official Gazette #2624 of yesterday’s date, […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of April 13, 2021) As the Licks Attorneys team previously advised, today, the BRPTO granted patents with a reduced term of protection due to the preliminary injunction (PI) granted by Reporting-Justice Toffoli on April 7. Justice Toffoli partially granted a preliminary injunction to suspend the effect of the Sole Paragraph of Art. […]
La décision provisoire rendue par le juge Toffoli a un effet immédiat sur près de 13 000 demandes de brevet au Brésil. Le 7 avril 2021, la Cour suprême brésilienne devait juger de la plainte constitutionnelle introduite en 2016 contre le seul paragraphe de l’article 40 de la loi sur la propriété industrielle (LPI) […]
Injunction granted by Justice Toffoli has immediate effect impacting almost 3k pharma-related applications. Almost 13K pending patent applications shall be directly affected in Brazil soon. The Brazilian Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the 2016 constitutional challenge to the SOLE PARAGRAPH OF ARTICLE 40 of the 1996 Brazilian Industrial Property (IP) Statute on April […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of March 30, 2021). As a continuation of the Plan to Combat the Patent Backlog, new Ordinance #21/2021 brings a new group of applications to the preliminary office action program. Now, applications filed in 2017 and still pending an examination may also be eligible to receive preliminary OAs. This so-called “preliminary office […]
