His article is part of a series reviewing the IP landscape in 2021.(1) This article looks particularly at an important development that took place with regard to the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO).
This article is part of a series reviewing the IP landscape in 2021. This article looks particularly at two important adjustments to the Brazilian trademark system that took place in the final quarter of 2021.
The year 2021 will go down in history. The second year of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus also represented landmark developments with respect to global vaccinations and the pharmaceutical sector.
After a long waiting period, on November 4 and 5, 2021, Brazil finally held the auction of the frequencies for 5G operation throughout the national territory.
Ana Paula Brito & Maria Eduarda Junqueira of Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello give a brief outline of each proceeding and how courts assess the technical discussion in both.
Yuri Fancher Machado, Charles Edward Baptista Jones, attorneys at Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello, and Weixian Zhu, counsel at Beijing Tiantai Law Firm, provide jurisdictional comparison of punitive damages.
Comeback wins are specially celebrated by their winners. Recently a turnaround occurred in an off-field dispute for the patent infringement of the spray used to mark the distance between the barrier's position and the ball, to take a free kick in football matches.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing have become common corporate buzzwords. And for good reason: Corporate stakeholders—consumers, employees, investors, and the like—have made it clear that they want to support companies that have a moral conscience and that use their resources to shape a better way to do business.
Eduardo Machado and Stephany Araujo, Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Viera de Mello’s experts, review the past two years since the implementation of the Madrid Protocol in Brazil.
Over the last 5 years, the Brazilian Patent Office has been adopting measures to reduce the backlog in patent examination combined with several improvements in its examination guidelines to perform a high-quality technical examination.