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>[26.Apr.09] General
- Brazilian Patent Law 200th anniversary
Source: Infomail ABREU, MERKL no. 25
On 28.Apr.2009, Brazil
is celebrating two centuries of its first patent system,
which was introduced on 28.Apr.1809 by the Regent Prince
of Portugal, D. João, in a yet colonial Brazil.
Since then, the Brazilian
industrial property legislation has come a long way
improving and evolving. In this sense, it should be
remembered that a legal norm is also a collective behavior
norm, which is conditioned by the social context of
a given period in time. Hence, the current Brazilian
Industrial Property Law (LPI
- Law no. 9279/1996) is far from perfect; however,
we ought to be proud of it for being a modern legislative
piece that measures up to the world's new economic order.
As far as its
effective application is concerned, aiming at the nation's
social development and economic growth, if such does
not occur, as many like to point out, it is due more
to the limitations imposed by our country's socioeconomic
environment and less due to the so proclaimed flaws
and omissions of the law.
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