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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 (...)

In July 2017, new rules for registration of technology transfer agreements entered in force. The procedures adopted by the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) for decades have now changed, and professionals are required to update their practices. On August 1 and 2, Murta Goyanes Advogados’ partner, Luiza Duarte, will be in Ouro Preto (State (...)

The conference “Brasil Streaming”, organized by TELA VIVA and TELETIME, will take place on July 17, at the WTC Events in São Paulo. The event discusses regulatory and market matters related to the business models for distribution of content on VOD. Founding partner of Murta Goyanes Advogados, Marcelo will address the possibility of using the current (...)

On June 6, 2017, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published Normative Instruction No. 02/2017, which establishes the automatic admissibility of PCT applications in Brazil. According to such Normative Instruction, PCT applications that entered the Brazilian national phase between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2016, and are pending admissibility examination, shall be automatically (...)