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On June 29, 2020, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published Ordinance No. 29/2021, which extends the deadline to request fast-track examination for Covid-19-related technologies. According to such Ordinance, all requests must be submitted before the BPTO until December 31, 2021 by the applicant, owner or third party (individual or legal entity), and contain arguments which attest the relationship (...)

The 2nd Civil Court of Osasco, São Paulo, decided that damages resulting from data leaks must be proven to justify the payment of moral damages1. According to the judge, it would be necessary to assess whether the leakage of the plaintiff’s data actually caused any damage. General allegations that the plaintiff suffered psychological damages, such as receipt of telemarketing calls, are not sufficient without demonstrating that the (...)

Since the implementation of the e-Software system in September 2017, the number of software filings at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) has broken a monthly record with 366 applications in May 2021. From January to May this year, there was a 20% increase in fillings and 17.6% in registrations when compared to the (...)

The 3rd Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (“STJ”) understood that the State Court cannot declare null a trademark registration recognized by the Federal Court1. The decision of the Minas Gerais State Court of Justice set that it is not possible to grant exclusive right over the trademark “Bristol”, since its registration before the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (“INPI”) would have (...)

The Presidency sanctioned a law that modifies the Brazilian Penal Code, in order to aggravate penalties applicable to offenses committed in and by cybernetic means. Approved by the National Congress in May 2021, Law 14,155/2021 is seen as an attempt to contain the increase in the number of crimes committed via the Internet in 2020. (...)

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The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published the fourth edition of the compilation of decisions on patent appeals, with 723 decisions rendered in 2020, which guide the technical positioning on patents. This is the first edition with decisions supported by the BPTO’s Board of Directors of Patents, Computer Software, and. Integrated Circuits Topography (DIRPA), in addition to those of the BPTO’s (...)

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) will be closed on June 3 and 4, 2021. The deadlines expiring on these dates will automatically be extended to June 7, 2021.