As we mark International Women’s Day, female IP leaders share their thoughts on how equity is fundamentally different to equality, and why recognising this distinction is crucial.

Levantamento aponta queda da participação feminina nas Cortes superiores.

A Practice Note discussing the civil and criminal claims available against counterfeiters and gray market goods sellers, the border protection mechanisms in Brazil that help identify and prevent the importation of counterfeit and gray market goods, and general anti-counterfeiting strategies intellectual property right (IPR) owners can employ in Brazil.

Anvisa abriu consulta pública para avaliar a bula de remédios genéricos e similares no Brasil.

Where would the world be in technical development today without patents? Would we have sent a rocket to the moon and to Mars? Would the mobile had been invented? Probably not.

On December 30, 2022, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (“INPI”) published the minutes of the SEI INPI 0747049 meeting, which simplifies a series of points with legal aspects and technical understandings that deserve revision by the INPI for the improvement of services related to the recordal of technology transfer / licensing agreements in Brazil.

54% do quadro societário do Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello é formado por mulheres.

Durante governo de Jair Bolsonaro, INPI criou ‘combate ao backlog’ e reduziu filtros para conceder propriedade industrial.

With a population of approximately 215 million, Brazil is the largest economy in Latin America today, with the fifth highest number of internet users as of January 2022.

Updates on the Brazilian PTO Plan to Reduce the Backlog in Technical Examination - Triggered by the urgent need for improvements on the timeframe to analyze and decide on the patentability of the approximately 30,000 patent applications filed each year in Brazil, the Brazilian PTO implemented a project to reduce the patent backlog in August 2019. The objective was to reduce the number of pending patent applications in 80%, and the proposed goal was achieved in March 2022, around seven months ahead of the estimate.