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The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) announced on July 16 that the limit of 800 requests for participation per annual cycle in Phase IV of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot project has been reached. As a result, no new requests for the PPH will be accepted in 2024 and Applicants will need to (...)

As part of the Action Plan of the National Intellectual Property Strategy for 2023-2025, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) joined the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (Global PPH or GPPH) program on July 6, 2024. The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a patent examination cooperation program between two Patent Offices that allows the applicant (...)

The law firm Murta Goyanes Advogados is once again featured in the 2024 Leaders League ranking, a French agency that has been classifying and promoting the services of companies and law firms in various sectors of the international business chain since 1996. MGA is mentioned once again in Leaders League, with distinctions in Intellectual Property (...)

MGA is considered a leading firm in the Media & Entertainment area, recognizing the firm’s lawyers as experienced and agile, responsible for ensuring a sense of security for clients by handling “highly complex cases [being] (…) specialists in dealing with streaming platforms.” Marcelo Goyanes is recognized as a professional with a “pro-business mindset, responsive and (...)

On June 17, 2024, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) announced that it is on the verge of reaching the limit of 800 participation requests per annual cycle within the scope of Phase IV of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Project. In 2023, the BPTO reached this limit in July. Now, we are (...)

Our partner, Alice Rayol, has just joined the new Standing Committee on Plant Varieties from AIPPI, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property. The Standing Committee on Plant Varieties is one of the 26 study groups of AIPPI, and its scope of work includes monitoring, commenting, and advising AIPPI on policies, legal frameworks, (...)

Partner Marcelo Goyanes will moderate the panel “Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence” at Rio2C, the largest creativity and innovation event in Latin America, which takes place on Tuesday, June 4, from 2 PM to 3 PM. The discussion brings together the graphic designer Felipe Rebelo, partner and VFX supervisor at Bl3nd; the award-winning editor Danilo Lemos, (...)

Our partner Vinícius Casciano represents the MGA law firm at the 2024 edition of the International Symposium on Immunobiologicals (ISI), promoted by the Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz). The ISI aims to integrate professionals, academics, and researchers from within and outside Brazil with R&D institutions to create collaborative networks for scientific and technological research, (...)