This past Monday, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) held another edition of Agenda IDS, this time dedicated to discussing trade secrets and unfair competition considering the experiences of the European Union and Brazil. The event featured a...
read +On August 18, 2025, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published Consultation No. 3/2025, with the aim of gathering comments from the public on the draft Guidelines for the Examination of Patent Applications related to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
read +IDS Participates in the 45th International Congress of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association From August 17 to 19, 2025, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) took part in the 45th International Congress of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI), held in São Paulo. The event, whose central theme was “Collaboration in the Age of Intelligence”, discussed […]
read +On July 9, 2025, the Department for the Promotion of Industry and Domestic Trade, of India, and the Secretariat of Competitiveness and Regulatory Affairs, of Brazil, signed a...
read +On July 28, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) hosted another edition of Agenda IDS, featuring an in-depth debate on the indiscriminate manufacturing and use of compounded medications involving...
read +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.
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