BPTO publishes new PPH phase with the USPTO

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot project with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

BPTO grants Geographical Indication for Cheese and Cocoa Almonds

The BPTO granted on April 24, the registration of Geographical Indication (GI), for the product...

Brazilian PTO discusses cooperation actions with Russia

Representatives from the Brazilian PTO attended a meeting with the general director of the Russian...

BPTO and DKPTO signed an agreement to establish a Pilot Prosecution Highway (PPH)

Representatives of the BPTO and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) signed a cooperation...

The Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development announces a new BPTO

The Brazilian Federal Government is modernizing the Brazilian Industrial Property System. In collaboration with national...

BPTO and UKIPO signed an agreement to establish a Pilot Prosecution Highway (PPH)

During the 10th meeting of the UK-Brazil Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) held in...

BRICS countries sign joint declaration on cooperation in Intellectual Property

Representatives from South Africa, Brazil, China, India and Russia signed a joint statement reaffirming cooperation...

BPTO and UKIPO launch Lambert Toolkit

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)...

The Future of IP

It has become emblematic, in the first decades of the XXI century and with the...

The Brazilian PTO (BPTO) issues Rule #193/2017 on expedited analysis of patent applications filed under the PCT

Recognizing a huge work backlog in the examination of Patent Applications (and expecting an increase...

Signed a New Agreement for the Examination of Pharmaceutical Patent Applications in Brazil

Yesterday (04/12/2017), in a formal ceremony held in Palácio do Planalto, in the capital Brasília, it was...

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...