The 2023-2025 Action Plan of the National Intellectual Property Strategy (ENPI) was released last Tuesday. The document aims to ensure progress towards an intellectual property (IP) system capable of leveraging Brazil's competitiveness and economic and social development.
read +This month, the Thomson Reuters - Revista dos Tribunais publishing house is launching the book "Comentários à Lei de Propriedade Industrial", organized by Kone Pietro Fortunato Cesário, Neide Bueno, Tayná Carneiro and Verônica Lagassi. The work presents comments on the provisions of Law No. 9.279/96, the Industrial Property Law (LPI), and is distinguished by the fact that it was written only by women experts in industrial property (IP) - doctors, masters, specialists.
read +Last Thursday, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) held another IDS Agenda event, this time welcoming guest Sarah Dorner, Director of International Admissions and Graduate Studies at the Franklin Pierce Law School of the prestigious University of New Hampshire (UNH Franklin Pierce), who spoke about the institution's short and long-term Intellectual Property (PI) Law courses.
read +Recently, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) rejected an application to register a figurative trademark consisting of the image of the face of Dutch model Puck Schrover. The decision was based on the trademark's lack of distinctiveness.
read +At the beginning of the month (4/10), the Brazilian Federal Senate approved a draft legislative decree (PDL 165/22) ratifying the agreement signed in May 2019 between the Mercosur member states (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay), aimed at protecting geographical indications (GIs) originating in the member countries.
read +A decision that concluded the administrative sanctioning process of the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) against the public body Instituto de Assistência ao Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo (IAMSPE) was published in the Federal Official Gazette on October 6. The authority applied two warning sanctions to the Institute for non-compliance with the provisions of the General Law on the Protection of Personal Data (LGPD).
read +Ordinance 1,100/2023, which establishes the Innovation Policy of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), was published last Monday in the Federal Official Gazette (DOU). Among the document's objectives are: the promotion of efficient institutional results; the development of products and services subject to health surveillance that are based on new technologies; and the improvement of Anvisa's capacity to deal with complex issues.
read +Last Tuesday, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) launched a new consultation with society, this time on its pilot program for a regulatory sandbox for artificial intelligence (AI) and personal data protection in Brazil.
read +The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) has published a study on the mapping of patent filings in Brazil involving nanotechnology. The study analyzes the technological information contained in patent documents from the last 20 years, with the aim of building a panorama of the patenting of inventions related to nanotechnology in the country, as well as stimulating business, partnerships and the formulation of public policies in the area.
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