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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 (...)

Preliminary decision that suspends Provisional Measure regarding the sharing of personal data with IBGE is confirmed by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court  On May 2020, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) maintained a preliminary decision that suspended the effectiveness of Provisional Measure 954/2020 (MP 954), which authorized the transfer of personal data from consumers of telephone operators to the Brazilian Institute (...)

BPTO establishes the end of the suspension of procedural deadlines. Considering the need to resume procedural deadlines for a complete service to users, even in a not yet ideal scenario of normality due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the BPTO published in the Official Bulletin No. 2577, of May 26, 2020, that the administrative proceedings will (...)

Brazilian Film Agency approves a proposal of review of the normative instruction that regulates audiovisual projects financed through direct and indirect public funding. The Board of Directors of the Brazilian National Film Agency (ANCINE) approved, on May 12, a set of internal proposals aimed at revising ANCINE’s Normative Instruction 125/2015, which regulates the administrative proceedings concerning (...)

BPTO postpones the suspension of deadlines until May 31,2020 due to COVID-19 outbreak.  Following the governmental recommendations to refrain the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil, the BPTO published Ordinance No. 179, which postpones the final term of suspension of all administrative deadlines until May 31, 2020.  The deadlines may be extended or reduced according to the (...)

Brazil executes PPH agreement with Singapore. On May 07, 2020, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) executed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) for implementing the pilot project Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) between both countries.  Singapore represents the 22nd participant country of PPH, the guidelines of which are stablished by Resolution No. 252 of (...)

IBM licenses the freely use of its patents to the third parties interested in fighting against Coronavirus. Due to COVID-19 pandemic and the urgency for developing emergency solutions, IBM authorized, on May 05, 2020, the free use of more than 80 thousand patent documents. Patent applications which filings occur until the end of 2023 are also (...)

Gramado aims to obtain the seal of geographical indication for artisanal chocolate  On April 17, 2020, the Law No. 13.990 was sanctioned granting the title of National Capital of Artisanal Chocolate to the city of Gramado, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The Secretariat of Tourism and the Gramado Chocolate Association (ACHOCO) aim the granting of Gramado Chocolate Geographical (...)