The Brazilian PTO (BRPTO) has just introduced a significant regulatory change affecting patent applications in the field of electric communication technologies. Through Ordinance #17/2025, published…
Brazil’s Ministry of Health and ABIFINA, the association representing local biosimilar and generic companies, have signed a patent-intelligence cooperation agreement aimed at improving the use of…
AI is driving innovation in every single industry. Particularly health care is facing unprecedented automation in its ecosystem from care management to real time inputs from medical literature. The…
Co-authored by Karlo TinocoBrazilian Court actions are, as a rule, public, with case files accessible to anyone regardless of the reason. This principle of publicity, anchored in the Constitution, is…
In an increasingly collaboration-driven innovation landscape, it is common for inventions to arise from joint efforts among universities, companies, and research centers. This reality calls for…
It is well known that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, and with this transformation comes an increasing demand for patent protection. Although the examination of AI…
The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO/INPI) has recently opened a public consultation period (ending September 26, 2025) for proposed amendments to its Chemistry examination guidelines,…
Brazil’s long-running effort to internalize drug manufacture through state-backed technology transfer agreements continues to face scrutiny. On May 7, 2025, the country’s Government Accountability…
The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO) published Ordinance No. 04/2025 (May 27, 2025), which formalizes the internal workflow for resuming the technical examination of patent applications…
