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Marcelo Goyanes will join the triathlete Fernanda Keller and Edoardo Belleza, leader of clothing category at Specialized Bikes Brasil, in a webinar that will address how the improvements in clothing affects the performance of athletes and how this technology applied to products can be protected by Intellectual Property law. The panel is part of the (...)

Once again, Murta Goyanes Advogados was recognized by the international ranking The Legal 500, in the Latin America 2022 edition, for its performance in Intellectual Property. Our firm was listed among the main practitioners in Brazil and its partners were recognized for the excellence of their services. According to the publication, Murta Goyanes Advogados is ‘able to efficiently and expertly (...)

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) will be closed on November 1 and 2, 2021. The deadlines expiring on these dates will be automaticaly extended to November 3, 2021.

On September 2, 2021, the Federal Government enacted Law No. 14,200, which amends Law No. 9,279/96 – the Brazilian Industrial Property Law (BIPL), as to compulsory licensing in cases of national or international emergency, and in case of public interest or recognition of public calamity nationwide. The compulsory licenses will be made on a case-by-case basis upon (a) payment of an indemnity to (...)

We are pleased to announce that our attorneys Antonio Murta Filho, Marcelo Goyanes, Luiza Duarte, Íris Sá and Tatiana Suschko have been recognized by the WWL Copyrights 2021 ranking.

On August 31, 2021, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published information on its website concerning the prosecution of pharmaceutical patent applications after extinction of the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA)’s prior approval. We would like to point out the following:  i.  the exchange of patent applications between both institutions was ended on August 27, 2021; ii.  patent applications with examination already (...)

On August 26, 2021, Law No. 14,195 was published and revoked the sole paragraph of Article 40 and Article 229-C of Law No. 9,279/1996 (the Brazilian Industrial Property Law – BIPL). The sole paragraph of Article 40, which was recently declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Federal Court, extended the term of validity of patents of invention whose applications took more than 10 years to be examined (...)

On August 24, 2021, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published Ordinance No. 39, which updates proceedings for entering into the Brazilian national phase of PCT patent applications and, therefore, replaces Resolutions Nos. 77/2013 and 179/2017. The Ordinance No. 39 stablishes a significant change over the former resolutions as to the following points: (i) (...)