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[29.Aug.11] Patents
– INPI/BR presents a plan to fight backlog of
patents
Source: INPI [adapted]
The President of the INPI/BR (Brazilian
National Institute of Industrial Property) presented,
on 28.Aug.2011, the Institute’s Strategic Plan
to reduce the patents backlog during the 31st International
Congress on Intellectual Property, fostered by the Brazilian
National Association of Intellectual Property (ABPI),
in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The chances include,
for instance, the establishment of the e-Patents system,
which will allow the electronic filing of applications
starting from 2012.
The president pointed out that the INPI/BR
has undergone major changes in order to adapt to the
new scenario of IP in the world, wherein the tendency
is the continuous increase in the number of applications.
The challenge, besides increasing examination capability,
is to maintain the quality of the examination service
in consistency with the ever growing sophistication
of the technologies involved in patents.
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