Year: 2022

The Brazilian Electrical and Electronics Industry Association (Abinee) will hold this Friday (December 16), starting at 9:30 a.m. (BRT), the webinar “The development of the Brazilian patent system in light of Bill #2056/2022”. The event, which is supported by Licks Attorneys, is open to the public and can be accessed online through the Zoom platform. Registration can be done at: https://www.lickslegal.com/abinee-dez22-en.

The BRPTO invited public opinion for the second edition of the Industrial Design Handbook through the Federal Register of November 7, 2022. The invitation was also issued in the BRPTO’s Official gazette #2705, of November 8, 2022.

The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) released this Tuesday (October 18) the “Cookies and Data Protection” Guidelines. The guidelines aim to advise processing agents on good practices regarding the use of cookies on websites. The main aspects are detailed below.

The Brazilian Federal Senate approved on Thursday (October 6) Draft Legislative Decree #274/22, which provides for Brazil’s accession to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement on the Industrial Designs international registration. As it had already been approved by the Brazilian House of Representatives on August 29, 2022, the draft will be forwarded to Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco for approval.

The Brazilian PTO (BRPTO) announced on September 29, 2022, that the cap for PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) requests for 2022 has been reached. As a result, all PPH requests received after this date will not be considered until the end of this year.