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Our partners Luiza Duarte Pereira and João Marcos Gebara will discuss key trends and share their expectations for 2023 in the webinar “Portugal, Brazil and Angola: current scenario of IP and perspectives for 2023”, promoted by JALP – Associação Internacional de Jovens Advogados de Língua Portuguesa and the OAB/RJ Industrial Property Committee.  The event will take (...)

It is with great satisfaction that we announce that the OAB-SP has appointed Murta Goyanes’ lawyer, Matheus Laupman, as auditor of the Sports Justice of the São Paulo Handball Federation. According to the letter sent to the entity, Laupman becomes an Effective Member of the Special Commission on Sports Law to represent the OAB in (...)

On April 27, 2023, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published Ordinance PR No. 15, which presents its 2023 Action Plan. Said document provides information on performance indexes, as well as projects for the year, in accordance with the Strategic Plan 2023-2026.  The topics below are some of the projects expected to be started in 2023:  automating the patent prosecution flow; standardization (...)

On April 20, 2023, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) launched a public consultation regarding the draft of a new Ordinance regulating general procedures related to form and content of patent applications and certificates of addition, as well as aspects related to priorities, grace period, divisional applications and submission of amendments. Interested parties may send (...)

From today to Sunday, the creative industries will be concentrated in Cidade das Artes, in Rio de Janeiro, and Murta Goyanes will accompany every detail through the participation of Tatiana Suschko, Marcelo Goyanes, Beatriz Paci, Bárbara Zonis, Ricardo Studart and Leticia Carneiro. Rio 2C is the biggest Creative event in Latin America, and will bring (...)

Further to Brazil’s adhesion to the Hague Agreement, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) launched on April 11, 2023, a public consultation regarding the prosecution of industrial design applications received via said agreement. Interested parties may send comments and suggestions until May 11 to the e-mail consultapublicadi@inpi.gov.br. The initial draft of the Normative Act under (...)

The Brazil Contentious 2023 Guide has just announced Murta Goyanes as one of the best Intellectual Property offices in the areas of Patents, Trademarks, Copyright and Trade Secrets in the country. Once again, partners Antonio Murta and Marcelo Goyanes were highlighted in the Trademarks, Copyright and Trade Secrets category.

Luiza do Prado represented Murta Goyanes at the XXII ASPI 2023 International Congress, which ended yesterday in São Paulo. This year’s edition had the participation of experts and authorities, brought to the debate the theme “The New Frontiers of Intellectual Property” and addressed technological transformations and their impacts on business involving IP.   According to Luiza, (...)