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Life Sciences & Health
Life Sciences & Health

Brazilian Clinics and the False Equivalence of Compounded GLP-1 Drugs: ANVISA should follow FDA

U.S. FDA enforcement against compounded GLP-1 products highlights false equivalence claims on safety and efficacy, and Brazil faces a similar clinic-driven market—calling for ANVISA to tighten oversight, curb trademark misuse, and enforce compounding and dispensing rules.
2025
7
min read
Legal & Regulatory Updates
Legal & Regulatory Updates

Toward Leadership: How Brazil can Unlock Clinical Trials with Regulation, Transparency and Technology

Brazil can unlock leadership in clinical trials by pairing its new legal framework with clear implementing rules, better transparency tools, and technology integration—especially AI-enabled Real-World Evidence—while balancing IP protection and patient access.
2025
8
min read
Trademark & Design
Trademark & Design

Mega-Events and Intellectual Property Protection

Mega-events depend on strong IP frameworks—spanning trademarks, copyright, designs, and patents—to preserve exclusivity, curb counterfeiting and ambush marketing, and protect investments from organizers and sponsors while enabling technology used during the events.
2025
7
min read
Legal & Regulatory Updates
Legal & Regulatory Updates

Brazilian gaming market: A future look for Intellectual Property disputes

Brazil’s new gaming law (Law 14,852/2024) broadens IP protection for electronic games—linking software and devices, opening a BRPTO registration path, and foreshadowing tighter, more specialized enforcement—while court practice and international models shape the next phase for disputes.
2025
8
min read
Patent Filing & Examination
Patent Filing & Examination

BRPTO extends deadline to submit comments to new uses of known products proposed guidelines: October 27

BRPTO has extended to October 27 the public comment deadline on proposed Chemistry-chapter guidelines for new uses of known products, which tighten novelty/obviousness and enablement standards—requiring in vivo data at filing and limiting support to exactly tested compounds.
2025
5
min read
Trademark & Design
Trademark & Design

Luxury brands and counter piracy measures

Brazil’s luxury market is expanding despite global softness, and a stronger IP toolkit—position marks, trade dress, copyright, border measures, and favorable court rulings—is shaping a robust anti-counterfeiting environment.
2025
9
min read
Global & Comparative IP
Global & Comparative IP

Cybersecurity: balancing public interest and innovation incentives

Cybersecurity’s rise as a national-security imperative revives debate on compulsory licensing, but because effective defense depends on trade secrets and operational know-how, any emergency use must be narrowly tailored to avoid exposing sensitive methods while preserving incentives for R&D and cooperation with rightsholders.
2025
6
min read
Life Sciences & Healthcare Patents
Life Sciences & Healthcare Patents

ANVISA new rules allowing changes on marketing approval “waiting list”

ANVISA’s new 2025–2026 Operational Tactical Plan aims to reduce marketing approval backlogs by allowing applicants to replace pending submissions before formal review and by granting priority review for GLP‑1 receptor agonists.
2025
5
min read
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Patents
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Patents

Microbial consortium: How to obtain patent protection in Brazil

The scientific significance of microbial consortia, their applications in biotechnology, and the challenges of obtaining patent protection in Brazil under BRPTO regulations.
2025
7
min read
News
News

Brazil Welcomes New Intellectual Property Powerhouse: RNA Law

A new chapter in Brazil’s IP scene has begun with the launch of RNA Law, an elite boutique firm dedicated to IP litigation, prosecution, and transactions.
2024
3
min read
Rob Rodrigues
Tatiana Alves
Karlo Tinoco
Brenno Telles, Ciro Albuquerque
Patent Filing & Examination Publications
Patent Filing & Examination Publications

Green Patents: encouraging sustainable innovation in Brazil

Encourages sustainable innovation by expediting environmentally friendly patent applications’ examination in Brazil
2024
9
min read
Life Sciences & Healthcare Patents
Life Sciences & Healthcare Patents

Vaccines in Development

Ongoing efforts and innovations in global vaccine development, focusing on emerging technologies
2024
8
min read
AI & IP Law
AI & IP Law

Computadores quânticos e IA: novos desafios judiciais

Antes da ampla adoção de computadores quânticos, há necessidade de padronização e desenvolvimento de técnicas de criptografia mais complexas para eliminar riscos à privacidade
2024
8
min read
Patent Filing & Examination
Patent Filing & Examination

Divulgação do programa nacional Mover traz expectativas para o aumento de depósitos de patentes voltadas à tecnologia verde

Governo lança programa "Mover" para promover sustentabilidade em automóveis, investimentos em P&D e atrair plantas industriais estrangeiras.
2024
7
min read