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BRAZIL: Crocs Imitation Deemed Unfair Competition - International Trademark Association

The State Court of Appeals of São Paulo held on April 7, 2021, that a third party’s imitation of Crocs, Inc.’s Classic and Crocband shoes is an illegal act of unfair competition despite the lack of a registered design or 3D trademark covering the design of the products.

Brazilian Supreme Court Ends Patent Term Extension and Retroactively Cuts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Patent Terms | Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P C

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On May 6, 2021, the Brazilian Supreme Court determined that the minimum ten-year patent term set forth in Article 40 of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Statute (Law No. 9,279) was unconstitutional (ADI 5529), and, on May 12, 2021, retroactively reduced the terms of granted pharmaceutical and medical device patents that are valid only due to the ten-year patent term provision to 20 years from the filing date.  The terms of granted patents in fields other than pharmaceuticals and medical devices did not have their terms retroactively reduced, i.e., they maintain their ten-years from grant date terms.

Operating virtually in pursuit of greater effectiveness

Virtual courts Despite all of the challenges that the pandemic has brought, the Brazilian judicial sector has not slowed down. The need to adapt to a new way of life almost overnight forced the state courts to expedite the scanning of lawsuits which were not yet digitised. Further, on 27 October 2020 the National Council of Justice announced the implementation of the 100% Digital Court project,(1) which the Rio de Janeiro State Court was first to introduce. The project aims to execute the procedural acts of lawsuits digitally. Despite most lawsuits being processed electronically at the time of its implementation, many presential acts (eg, conciliatory and judgment sessions) still used physical documentation.

New guidelines for examining patent applications that involve computer-implemented inventions

New guidelines for examining patent applications that involve computer-implemented inventions
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