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...
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...