By Carlos Cavalcanti. Managing Partner at Moeller IP Brazil.
PPH expansion
From December 1, 2019, Brazilian PTO begins the expansion of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) system to all technology fields, unifying its rules.
The change aims to simplify procedures for…
By Vivianne Cardoso Banasiak, Client Relationship Manager
BR PTO – Fighting the Patent Backlog
The year of 2018 was marked by harsh criticism on how the Government was dealing with the Brazilian Patent Office’s (BR PTO) backlog problem. However, since January…