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Founding partner of Murta Goyanes Advogados, the IP´s specialist Marcelo Goyanes will attend the “II Fórum do Direito Autoral e do entretenimento”, at OAB RJ, next Monday, October 9th. The event is organized by the Copyright and Entertainment Law Committee of the Bar Association, Section Rio de Janeiro, and aims to address proposals and possible solutions (...)

Murta Goyanes Advogados was recognized again this year by the international publication that brings together the most prestigious law firms on the continent, the Chambers Latin America 2018. The firm´s founding partners, Antonio Murta Filho and Marcelo Goyanes, were also recognized for their depth knowledge in Intellectual Property and Media & Entertainment. Antonio Murta Filho (...)

Murta Goyanes Advogados’s Patent Consultant, Maria Alice Calliari will be attending the IIPRD´s event Symposium on Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Chemical Patent Laws, in the next few days. For three days (from 25th to 27thseptembre), patent professionals for all over the world will be involved in important issues to optimize patent development efforts and understand regulatory (...)

The lawyer Marcelo Goyanes will be the chairman of the “Streaming in Brazil” panel at the Rio Music Market Conference, on September 13 (10 am). He will discuss the current status of the well-known Oi vs. Ecad litigation after the Superior Court of Justice´s decision in Special Appeal nº 1,559,264, with the possible outcomes of (...)

Murta Goyanes Advogados has been recommended in Intellectual Property by The Legal 500 Latin America, which has been analyzing law offices around the world for almost 30 years. This year’s edition of the international publication also highlights the four partners Antonio Murta Filho, Marcelo Goyanes, Luis Henrique Porangaba and Luiza Duarte Pereira, who assist clients (...)

Murta Goyanes Advogados’s Patent Consultant, Maria Alice Calliari will be in Ouro Preto (MG) on 23 and 24 August to teach the course “Patent Management: Copywriting, Strategic Writing and Monitoring”, promoted by Educapei (Anpei) and FEOP. The course aims to present the mechanisms to manage the patent in order to make it a strong industrial (...)

Antonio Murta Filho will attend the ABPI´s 37th International Congress, from August 20 to 22. The annual event is the largest in the Intelectual Property area and gather important professionals, government´s agencies and organizations involved in the Intellectual Property debate and improvement. Founding partner of Murta Goyanes Advogados, Murta will be part of the panel (...)

On July 27, 2017, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) issued a public consultation on a proposal to reduce the current patent backlog by streamlining examination of pending applications. According to the proposal, eligible applications (as detailed below) would form a separate queue so they would be allowed as published or notified upon their (...)