A new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) was signed!

On this March 16th, 2017, the president of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)...

New Developments in the Examination of Pharmaceutical Patent Applications

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) and the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) have recently...

Ethics and Intellectual Property

When we study the principle of ethics in Intellectual Property, we have two classic situations...

New Guidelines for the Examination of Computer-implemented Inventions

We would like to bring to our readers' attention that the BPTO published on December 6...

Brazil and Japan new agreement – A new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is near!

We are pleased to announce that today Brazil and Japan have signed an agreement that creates...