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Murta Goyanes Advogados was one more time awarded by the World Trademark Review 2020 as one of the leading Brazilian law firms specializing in trademark law. The publication brings together annually the major firms and trademark professionals around the world. The partners Antonio Murta Filho, Marcelo Goyanes, Luiza Duarte and Luis Porangaba were also praised by their clients for their efficiency and commitment to the (...)

São Paulo Court of Justice decides that the monitoring of mobile phones of São Paulo citizens by the State Government is valid. According to a recent decision rendered by the Special Body of the São Paulo Court of Justice, an agreement that allows the government to receive information on the displacement of citizens to identify (...)

BPTO and CAS consolidate technical cooperation agreement for optimizing examination of patent applications. On June 10, 2020, a Technical Cooperation Agreement (ACT) was issued between the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) and CAS, non-profitable division of American Chemical Society. Aiming at improving the workflow related to examination of patent applications, such agreement stablishes the (...)

Possible dispute for the registration of the trademark “SPACE FORCE”: United States Armed Forces versus Netflix. On May 29, 2020, the series “Space Force” debuted on the entertainment giant Netflix, a comedy starring Steve Carell that satirizes the new homonymous space force presented by US President Donald Trump in order to take over military operations in (...)

BPTO´S data show active government participation in priority examination requests involving patent applications related to Covid.19   On April 03, 2020, The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) issued Ordinance No. 149, which modified Resolution No. 239/2019 in order to allow the priority processing of patent applications involving technologies related to diagnosis, prophylaxis and treatment (...)

Billboard published yesterday about the IAEL (International Association of Entertainment Lawyers) initiative to set up its first Legal Digital Summit at Midem Digital 2020 in order to bring the global music community together to better understand what is coming next for the industry in the post-COVID era. Murta Goyanes’ Leticia Carneiro joined the event on June 4th, and made a speech in the webinar “Nationalism V Globalism”, collaborating with the topic “The Brazilian (...)

Leticia Carneiro, Murta Goyanes lawyer, will join the Midem Digital Edition next Thursday, June 4th, at 11am (Brasília time). The topic of the webinar will be “Nationalism V Globalism”, and Leticia will be on the panel addressing “The Brazilian General Data Protection Law and the rise of a new era of privacy standards in Latin America”. In a time of distancing and isolation around the world, (...)

Spotify requests the removal of sites with misleading promises of Premium Services for Free: The streaming platform Spotify filed DMCA takedown procedures, aiming Google’s removal of the indexing links from websites that promised users access to Premium Services for free, without the need to subscribe to the platform. In total, 20 requests were filed for Google to remove more than 60 links that contained (...)