The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) signed a memorandum of understanding on IP on October 23. As part of the agreement, the BPTO, represented by its president, Júlio César Moreira, announced the publication on its website of the first in a series of 15 IPOS Business Guides, translated into Portuguese and customized for the Brazilian reality.

The first guide, Protecting Your Competitive Advantage, addresses the concepts of IP and how it can help develop businesses. Aimed at entrepreneurs, the guides also address topics such as establishing partnerships, analyzing the competition, internationalizing companies, and generating resources from IP. The goal is for all guides to be published by BPTO by November 2025.

In addition to the guides, the partnership will have two main objectives: sharing information on the valuation of intellectual property assets and generating opportunities for the internationalization of the BPTO Academy.

Innovation diplomacy

The agreement was signed during the IP Strategies for Business workshop, organized by the Brazilian Embassy in Singapore and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

The workshop is related to the mission of nine Brazilian startups to Singapore from October 22 to 30 to participate in an immersion program in the Asian country’s innovation ecosystem and the Singapore Innovation and Technology Week (SWITCH).

For the third consecutive year, Brazil will stand at SWITCH, made possible by the Innovation Diplomacy Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose objective is to promote Brazil’s image as an innovative nation and foster partnerships between Brazilians and foreigners on this topic.

Source: BPTO