Licks Attorneys prepared this article to provide an economic and institutional overview of Brazil’s landscape. We present the main changes made over the past year and the prospects for the Brazilian economy in 2020. The first year of the new administration brought relevant improvements to the Brazilian economic and institutional context. The Government has successfully […]
BRPTO’s website notification The BRPTO’s new PPH Pilot program, issued under Rule#252/2019, is still receiving new participating patent offices. The BRPTO keeps notifying the Brazilian patent system users via its website about the new participating Offices. Up to this date, the following Offices have been confirmed in this new PPH program: The Austrian Patent […]
The COVID-19 outbreak and its economic and social impacts raises a question in Brazil: whether the country´s Data Privacy Act – LGPD, enacted on August 14, 2018 should be postponed, instead of becoming enforceable on August 16, 2020. Bills have already been presented before the National Congress seeking to delay enforcement of the LGPD. The […]
Understanding the New Regulation Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) has published in the Official Gazette its RDC #327/2019, which regulates the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes in Brazil, as announced in our previous client alert. The regulation established the procedure for the granting of the Sanitary Authorization for the manufacture and importation of medicinal […]
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) unanimously approved Brazil’s new Regulation on the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. ANVISA’s approval includes the registration and marketing of cannabidiol-based products (CBD-based) in pharmacies. The new regulation, that will be issued as a Resolution of the Collegiate Board (RCD), shall undergo a reevaluation within three years. The […]
Rule #252/2019 implementing the BRPTO’s new PPH Pilot program came into to force on December 1st, 2019. This new program unifies the PPH agreements signed by the BRPTO so far and adds the possibility of expediting the examination of patent applications belonging to any field of technology. The BRPTO is still signing cooperation agreements and […]
On September 20, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned Executive Order #881/2019, which establishes the Declaration of Economic Freedom Rights in Brazil. We will highlight the main aspects of the Declaration, published as Act #13,874/2019 after the Executive’s Order sanction. The Declaration establishes economic freedom and good faith as an interpretation criterion for all rules regarding […]
On June 28th, Mercosur and the European Union reached a political agreement for a comprehensive trade agreement between the two regions after 20 years of negotiations. This would be the first major trade pact signed by Mercosur, a bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay and creates the largest trade zone in the world in […]
The Brazilian President enacted on July 24, 2019, the Decree 9931/2019, establishing the Intellectual Property Interministerial Group (Grupo Interministerial de Propriedade Intelectual – “GIPI”) within the Ministry of Economy. The Group seeks to propose and coordinate the Federal Government´s activities regarding intellectual property. The GIPI will (i) have an annual work plan with timelines establishing […]
The sanction modifies the wording of the Brazilian General Data Protection Act On July 8, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned Executive Order #869/2018, which establishes changes on Brazilian General Data Protection Act and, primarily, provides for the creation of the National Protection Data Authority (NPDA). The President, however, vetoed some relevant aspects of the text […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of July 9th, 2019). The BRPTO published on July 9th, 2019 the long-waited rules implementing the BRPTO’s new project to reduce the patent Backlog. This project aims at reducing the number of pending applications by 80% until 2021 and the time taken by the BRPTO to grant a patent to about two years. […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of July 2nd, 2019) The BRPTO published on July 2nd, 2019, Rule #242/2019 implementing phase III of the PROSUL PPH Pilot program, which is intended to speed up the examination of pending Brazilian applications with an application from the same family endowed with patentability requirements of novelty, non-obviousness and industrial applicability by one […]
