The Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE) has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) to coordinate on the analysis of mergers and investigations involving companies in the financial industry and to line up actions to stimulate competition in regulated markets as well. As our team has previously reported, the MoU […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of March 6th, 2018)The BRPTO published on March 6th, 2018, Rule #212/2018 implementing Phase III of the pilot program for applications with BR priority.The project aims for Brazilian utility patent applications and utility model patent applications first filed at the BRPTO or at the RO/BR (the BRPTO as the PCT’s Receiving Office), which […]
New provisions expand the statutory authority to issue compulsory licenses and could be used in PDP projects for public non-commercial use.February 26, 2018Since February 22, 2018 the Protocol Amending TRIPS Agreement, adopted by the WTO in 2005, has been in force in Brazil as municipal law. The Protocol enlarges compulsory license scope, allowing its use […]
Antitrust in Brazil: everything you need to know for 2018 What are the perspectives for antitrust defense in Brazil for 2018? Institutional more… Investigations & Rule more… Agreements, Resolutions and Guides more… Sectors in evidence more… Law Projects more… International Agenda more… Antitruste no Brasil: perspectivas para 2018 Quais são as perspectivas para a defesa […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of January 30th, 2018)The BRPTO published on January 30th, 2018, Rule #210/2018 establishing a new deadline for the PPH pilot program between the BRPTO and the USPTO. The PPH pilot program will be valid until May 10th, 2018.As mentioned in our client alert of January 5th, 2016 (available here), the PPH Program accepts […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of January 30th, 2018) The BRPTO published on January 30th, 2018, Rule #209/2018 implementing the PPH Pilot program with the SIPO, which might speed up the examination of pending Brazilian applications with an application from the same family for which a decision to grant has been issued by the SIPO. The Program will […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of January 16 th , 2018) The Brazilian PTO issued an official notification today, on its gazette #2454, instituting a pilot program for the issuance of pre-examination opinions to expedite the substantive examination of patent applications at the Office. According to the official notification, the applicant may voluntarily file amendments to the application […]
The Ministry of the Economy announced this Tuesday, January 8th, the nomination of Mr. Cláudio Vilar Furtado as the new President of the Brazilian Patent Office (BRPTO). Mr. Furtado has been a tenured professor at Business Administration School (EAESP) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) since 1974, where he has taught Investment Strategy, Corporate Finance, […]
(BRPTO’s gazette of January 2 nd , 2018)The Guidelines for Examination of Patent Application – aspects related to the examination of patent applications in the chemistry area – complement the contents of block I (BRPTO Rule #124/2013) and block II (BRPTO Rule #169/2016) of the guidelines for the examination of patent applications, with particularities about […]
Since 2003, the telecom industry in Brazil has been following the lawsuit filed by Ericsson challenging the validity of a Brazilian patent owned by a local non-practicing entity, which allegedly covered caller ID standards and all technologies implementing it in Brazil for fixed and mobile telephony. This week the 9th Federal Court of Rio de […]
The investigative body (the General Superintendence) of the Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE) has launched a general guide for civil search and seizure procedures relevant to the antitrust policy.The document, named “Diligence of Civil Search and Seizure: general information onoperationalization”, is divided into four topics correspondent to the main phases of this type of operation: (i) […]
The long awaited system in the area of traditional knowledge – the National System for the Management of Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge – SisGen -, was finally launched on November 06, 2017, according to the Ordinance SECEX/CGEN #1 of October 03, 2017.The SisGen was set forth in article 5 of Decree #8.772/2015. This […]
