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The Law No. 14,044 / 2020 was recently enacted and extends the period for use of the tax benefits provided by Articles 1 and 1-A of the Brazilian Audiovisual Law (Law No. 8,685/1993) until 2024. At the beginning of the year, the bill that aimed to renew the time limit for these benefits was fully vetoed (...)

According to a recent decision rendered by the 11th Panel of the Brazilian Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region, the term “botox” is not indicative of the botulinum toxin. Therefore, it can be registered as a trademark. In the case at hand, a pharmaceutical company filed a lawsuit claiming the invalidity of the registration of the trademark “botox”, (...)

Ecad has announced that the concerts and events sectors will have a temporary discount, until December 2021, in the payment of royalties over compositions, literary-musical works and phonograms, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative of Ecad and other collective management associations (Abramus, Amar, Assim, Sbacem, Sicam, Socinpro and UBC) aims to contribute to the (...)

The Managing Committee of the Audiovisual Sectoral Fund (FSA) met again last Wednesday (12) and determined, based on the Brazilian National Film Agency – ANCINE’s Board of Directors recommendation, the criteria that will be used in the analysis of projects approved through public calls launched until 2018, but that have not been contracted yet. According (...)

On August 11, 2020, the BPTO granted the status of famous mark to the mark NEOSORO, confirming (1) that the mark is recognized by a large portion of the Brazilian public in general; (2) the quality, reputation and prestige that the Brazilian public in general associates with the mark and the products it designates; and, (3) the degree of distinctiveness and exclusivity of the (...)

Representative Damião Feliciano issues an opinion on the commencement of effectiveness of the General Law of Data Protection in August 2020. Representative Damião Feliciano (PDT-PB) filed last Wednesday (5), an opinion on MP 959/2020, excluding from the legal text the provision for the extension of Law 13.709/2018 (General Data Protection Law or LGPD) to May (...)

BPTO launches two new modalities of fast-track examination for patent applications. As from September 1st, 2020, two more modalities of priority procedure will enter into force as a pilot project, through the BPTO’s Ordinance No. 294/2020: a) patent applications which all or part of the subject matter has been licensed, offered for sale, imported or exported, (...)

New public consultation in Australia discusses payment by Google and Facebook for content displayed on their platforms. Following the movement initiated by the copyright directive approved in the European Union in 2019, the Australian government initiated a public consultation on a new code of conduct, which includes the possibility of establishing an obligation for Google and (...)