In a ruling at the end of 2023, the United States Court of Appeals (USA) upheld the US Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) decision to refuse registration of the "Everybody vs Racism" trademark.
read +On October 29, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published its ranking of the 50 largest applicants for industrial property rights, both resident and non-resident, in Brazil in 2022 and 2023. The document contains data on...
read +The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published (01/17) its Institutional Plan of Educational Actions 2023/2024. The document includes 25 activities, some of which have been underway since 2023, which aim to...
read +Widespread in 2023, generative artificial intelligence (AI) began to be used to replicate the voices of singers and actors. On this basis, in November 2023, a group of Brazilian voice actors joined a global movement to...
read +In a recent judgment, the 3rd Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) unanimously ruled that being the holder of a duly granted utility model (UM) patent does not, in itself, authorize the use of the product that implements it, especially when...
read +At the end of November 2023, the Beijing Internet Court, a judicial body that deals with cases related to virtual activity, recognized copyright protection for images generated by an artificial intelligence (AI), the first ruling handed down in the country on the subject.
read +On December 2023, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published the first edition of its Map of Priority Themes (MTP) for the 2024-2025 biennium. The document sets out...
read +At the end of 2023, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its first revision of the Regulatory Agenda for the 2023-2024 biennium, changing the priority of two actions. The document, published in November 2022, brought with it the 20 regulatory actions considered to...
read +Last Tuesday (8), the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published its Monthly Industrial Property Bulletin, a statistical document that evaluates industrial property (IP) applications and grants. This edition covers both the month of December and...
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