Considerada a maior e mais prestigiada rede de escritórios de advocacia empresarial no Brasil, a ALAE, através de seus membros, presta assistência jurídica a empresas que têm ou planejam ter negócios em diversos pontos de nosso país ou da América Latina.
If you never heard of FaceApp, a smartphone app that provides photo-transformations and recently went viral, you probably saw at least one friend, or a famous character, posting his or her AI-aged selfies on social media. And with the same speed that the Russian-developed app went viral, legal issues began to arise in several countries, including Brazil.
When it comes to Brazilian patent practice, the number 1 concern for applicants seeking protection for cosmetic methods is to explicitly differentiate the invention from a therapeutic method. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to think about a second prohibition contained in Article 10 (VIII) of Brazilian Intellectual Property Law: operating or surgical techniques.
A propriedade intelectual recebe um novo impulso no Brasil com a assinatura, em junho, do tão esperado acordo comercial entre o Mercosul e a União Europeia. Além de representar grandes conquistas para os exportadores brasileiros — juntos, os dois blocos representam 1/4 do PIB mundial, ou seja, cerca de 25% de um mercado estimado em 800 milhões de consumidores —, o acordo (um dos mais amplos e de maior complexidade já negociado) inclui marcos regulatórios, regras sanitárias e também importantes aspectos relacionados à propriedade intelectual.
For years, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) has been struggling to find an effective solution to tackle the huge backlog in the examination of patent applications. There are currently around 200,000 patent applications awaiting technical examination according to data published by the BPTO in May 2018.
Há pelo menos 20 anos, o Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) vem tentando apresentar uma solução efetiva para eliminar o backlog no exame de pedidos de patente. De acordo com dados divulgados pelo próprio Instituto, há cerca de 200 mil pedidos de patente pendentes de exame técnico.
O artigo fala sobre a adesão do Brasil ao Protocolo de Madri.
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?
O artigo analisa as novas Diretrizes publicadas pelo Instituto Nacional de Patentes e Marcas (INPI) em 2018 para Exame de Pedidos de Patentes nas áreas Química e farmacêutica.
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.