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Luiza Duarte and Alice Rayol, partners at MGA, are attending the 2024 ANPEI Innovation Conference in São Paulo from August 21-22, 2024. The conference celebrates the 40th anniversary of ANPEI, the National Association for Research and Development of Innovative Companies, and gathers over 21,000 participants to engage in 50 panels featuring national and international experts, (...)

The MGA partner in São Paulo, Luiza do Prado, is attending the 7th edition of the PAYTV Forum, taking place in São Paulo from August 12-13, 2024. The forum gathers key players from the pay TV and streaming sectors, including communication companies, producers, analysts, programmers, technology suppliers, and market regulators. Key topics include industry transformations, (...)

The founding partner, Marcelo Goyanes, is one of the leading Brazilian professionals in the Sports & Entertainment field according to the Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders Brazil 2024 report. In a universe of 390 Brazilian professionals, only 14% were included in the final research results, listing professionals at the pinnacle of the Brazilian legal market. (...)

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) announced on July 16 that the limit of 800 requests for participation per annual cycle in Phase IV of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot project has been reached. As a result, no new requests for the PPH will be accepted in 2024 and Applicants will need to (...)

As part of the Action Plan of the National Intellectual Property Strategy for 2023-2025, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) joined the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (Global PPH or GPPH) program on July 6, 2024. The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a patent examination cooperation program between two Patent Offices that allows the applicant (...)

The law firm Murta Goyanes Advogados is once again featured in the 2024 Leaders League ranking, a French agency that has been classifying and promoting the services of companies and law firms in various sectors of the international business chain since 1996. MGA is mentioned once again in Leaders League, with distinctions in Intellectual Property (...)

MGA is considered a leading firm in the Media & Entertainment area, recognizing the firm’s lawyers as experienced and agile, responsible for ensuring a sense of security for clients by handling “highly complex cases [being] (…) specialists in dealing with streaming platforms.” Marcelo Goyanes is recognized as a professional with a “pro-business mindset, responsive and (...)

On June 17, 2024, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) announced that it is on the verge of reaching the limit of 800 participation requests per annual cycle within the scope of Phase IV of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Project. In 2023, the BPTO reached this limit in July. Now, we are (...)