Given the growing importance of artificial intelligence on the global stage, Brazil and the United States launched national plans in 2025 outlining guidelines for the development and...
read +On July 9, 2025, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published the study entitled “Brazil in the Global Context of Investments in Intangible,” which complements the...
read +The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published, through Ordinance BPTO/DIRPA No. 10, dated June 18, 2025, the Patent Forfeiture User Manual. As highlighted in the document, its objective is to present forfeiture as a regulatory instrument essential to the governance of industrial property, clarify its legal treatment under current legislation, disambiguate its application across different normative contexts, and provide practical guidelines for its administrative processing within BPTO.
read +In a decision issued in June 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that the use of copyrighted works for training language models by artificial intelligence systems may, under certain circumstances, constitute fair use pursuant to Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act. Conversely, the Court rejected the application of the fair use doctrine with respect to the general maintenance of pirated copies in the company’s internal library.
read +In a decision published on June 23, the Third Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) granted, by majority, the special appeal filed by...
read +On Thursday (26), the Federal Supreme Court (STF) concluded its judgment of two appeals with general repercussion concerning the civil liability of digital platforms for content published by third parties.
read +In May 2025, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) released the report “The Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence from a Copyright Perspective”, which analyzes...
read +On May 2, 2025, the European Commission released the fourth edition of the Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List, a report that, since 2018, has been tracking key global trends related to counterfeiting and piracy....
read +On June 10, 2025, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published in the Industrial Property Gazette (RPI), Ordinance No. 15/2025, which, through the inclusion of Chapter XVI-A in Ordinance No. 08/2022, regulates the...
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