Year: 2022

The BRPTO published today, June 1st, 2022, in Federal Register #103, an announcement on opening of the Public Consultation to discuss the technical note BRPTO/CPAPD #01/2022, which provides guidelines on the examination of inventions related to transgenic plants, particularly, elite events. Starting from today’s publication, interested parties will have 30 (thirty) days, i.e., until July […]

On May 18, 2022, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) opened a call for contributions to collect inputs from society in regard to the regulation of international personal data transfers. The ANPD welcomes contributions to any of the questions listed below: ‍ 1) What are the current obstacles for companies to transfer data from […]

On May 5, 2022, the Brazilian version of US’s Federation of State Medical Boards, called the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM), published Rule #2,314/2022 to regulate telemedicine in the country. The new rule was highly anticipated, considering that until now the topic was regulated by CFM’s outdated Rule #1643/2002, which was reinstated after the CFM […]

The BRPTO announced, in its Official gazette #2676, of April 19, 2022, that a Public Consultation will be held on the technical note BRPTO/CPAPD #01/2022, dated March 16, 2022, which provides guidelines on the examination of inventions related to transgenic plants, particularly, elite events. In this regard, the applicability of the aforementioned technical note, notably […]

(BRPTO’s gazette of April 12, 2021) The BRPTO published on April 12, 2022, Ordinance #34/2022, which revokes Ordinance #21/2021, expanding the preliminary office action program to applications filed on or after January 1, 2018. The “preliminary office action” was created in 2019 as one of the BRPTO measures to reduce the patent backlog and pendency […]