In the middle of last year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its global innovation index, which is based on criteria such as the spending on scientific publications and education, and patent applications of the surveyed countries. With 1.3 million applications and more than 400,000 patents granted, China took the lead. In second place is the US, with more than 600 thousand patent applications and 303 thousand patents granted. Brazil ranked 69th, with about 22 thousand patent applications analyzed and four thousand patents granted. Why are we so low in the world innovation ranking while being the 9th largest economy in the world?
In recent years, the world patent system experienced a huge increase in patent applications, resulting in a struggle for worldwide patent offices to deal with the extremely high rates of growth. As a result, the patent system faced an overall rise in backlog numbers. While each country experiences unique problems related to backlog and pendency, a number of countries stand out in terms of.
The business model of using an online marketplace has increased in Brazil, becoming the main sales channel for Brazilian e-commerce in recent years.
It is unquestionable that Amazon has always been subject of disputes. Whereas it has been subject of territorial dispute or regarding the management of its resources, it seems that Amazon has become the subject of yet another dispute. This one regarding the extension of the domain name (gTLD) .AMAZON.
On January 2, 2019, the Brazilian Trademark Office (BPTO) granted the status of highly reputed to the FLAMENGO mark on behalf of the CLUBE DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO, one of the major Brazilian Football Team.
El 29 de mayo de 2018, el Proyecto de Ley Nº 4.060/2012 (PL), que establece una ley general sobre protección de datos personales en Brasil, fue aprobado por la Cámara de Deputados Brasileña. La rápida adopción de este PL representa un paso importante para que Brasil reglamente la protección de la privacidad y datos personales de nuestros ciudadanos. La importancia y urgencia de la cuestión en el Congreso fueron alentadas por la entrada en vigor del Reglamento General de Protección de Datos (RGPD) este pasado 25 de mayo de 2018 en la Unión Europea.
Artigo publicado na renomada revista IAM Life Science em Junho de 2018. (Artigo disponível apenas em inglês)
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