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The Brazilian PTO is carrying out a public consultation on the 2nd edition of the Manual of Industrial Designs. Interested parties may send suggestions until December 7.  The public consultation covers the following main issues:  2 – What is considered an industrial design; 4 – Formal Examination; and 5 – Technical Examination.  Other changes encompass (...)

Murta Goyanes contributed to the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) – Designs 2023. Our Luiza Duarte Pereira, Patrícia Rizel, Conrado Steinbruck and Fernanda Mosca wrote the chapter about Brazil, which addresses judicial, legislative and administrative issues related to the protection of industrial designs.  ICLG – Designs 2023 was produced in association with Ewan Grist and (...)

Matheus Laupman, specialized in Sports Law, participated in the seminar “Football is Brazil: sport, diversity and business”. It was the first edition of the event, which took place in a hybrid format – in person and remotely. Promoted by the Institute for Reform of State-Enterprise Relations and Women In Sports Law (Wislaw), the following topics (...)

Murta Goyanes Advogados was listed in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 – Latin America ranking. MGA was mentioned in the Intellectual Property areas and, for the first time, in TMT: Media. We thank, once again, the commitment of our team, as well as the trust and partnership of our clients.

This Friday, Sept 16, Marcelo Goyanes will be a panelist at the Municipal Law, Innovation and Entertainment Congress, in Rio de Janeiro. He will speak about licensing and authorizations for cultural events, at 1:30 pm.

On August 29, 2022, the House of Representatives approved the draft Decree N° 274/22, providing for Brazil’s adhesion to the Hague Agreement on the international registration of industrial designs. This matter will now be analyzed by the Senate. The purposes of the Hague Agreement is to simplify procedures and reduce costs for the registration of industrial designs abroad, benefiting both Brazilians who (...)

The National Film Agency – ANCINE´s recently published Ordinance 611-E/202 establishes criteria and procedures for submissions of priority requests for the analysis of audiovisual projects with public resources. Interested parties may request priority analysis in the following cases: (1) for the release of incentive resources, after approval of the project’s execution, and (2) for the execution and contracting of resources from the Audiovisual Sectoral Fund (FSA), (...)

We are pleased to announce that Murta Goyanes Advogados is once again listed in a prestigious international ranking as one of the best patent offices in Brazil. The IAM Patents 1000 guide also included Antonio Murta Filho, Luiza Duarte Pereira, Marcelo Goyanes and Vinícius Casciano among the best professionals in the market: “According to clients, Murta Goyanes is ‘one of the (...)