Year: 2021

On December 29, 2020, the BRPTO issued Ordinance #405, establishing new rules for the submission of Sequence Listing for patent applications pending in Brazil. According to Ordinance #405/2020, during 2021, Sequence Listing can be submitted before the BRPTO either following the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ST.25 Standard (.TXT format) or, alternatively, the ST.26 Standard […]

(per BRPTO’s gazette of December 29, 2020). ‍ As mentioned in our client alert of December 29, 2020, the BRPTO published Ordinance #411/2020, which establishes the new version of the Examination Guidelines for Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII). This ordinance is in force as of January 1, 2021, and revokes the previous guidelines provided by Rule #158/2016. […]