>[24.Jul.08] General - INPI and USPTO Sign Agreement Memo
Source: INPI/BR [Adapted]

The Brazilian INPI’s President and the United States Undersecretary for Commerce and Intellectual Property and USPTO Director General signed, on 24.Jul.2008, a memo of agreements between the two agencies.

The document consolidates the already ongoing cooperation between the agencies and focus on the activities that promote information exchange and professional capacitating. According to INPI’s president, cooperation among industrial property offices is fundamental at a moment in which all worldwide IP offices are facing not only backlogs but also pressure for quality, for assurance on legal security and cost reduction for users of the system.

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