ADVANCES IN BRAZIL
of the IPAS soſtware system, a new internal soſtware system for the electronic management of applications and registrations. Tis soſtware, although recently adopted, has increased the interaction between the INPI and the applicants/ registrants, bringing innovations such as a more complete web-based database, which contains information such as the petitions filed in each case and official fees paid in each process.
Tis new system also instituted an entirely new methodology, along with a new set of codes, for the issuance of decisions by the INPI. It also creates formal communications relative to issues that before the implementation of the IPAS were not object of publications by the INPI. Although this new method of communicating decisions did not alter either the means or timing of the INPI’s decisions, which is still on a weekly basis and in the Official Gazette, it brought some relevant changes.
For instance, decisions rendered on petitions that were filed requesting alterations with regard to
corrections or some particular
item of the application/registration were not published by the INPI until the advent of this
new system. Tis procedural change, although minor, serves to end an uncertainty that always existed with regard to the submission of requests such as restrictions of goods or services, which play an important role when it comes to fulfilling agreements.
All these changes are, in principle, to be regarded as positive, and indicate the INPI’s willingness to become more transparent and more efficient. Nevertheless, it is yet to be determined how expediting examination procedures will affect the quality of the services rendered by the INPI.
In fact, in a country where the IP law provides that substantial examination of applications is to be carried out considering relative and absolute grounds of refusal, it will probably be an extremely difficult task to resolve a backlog of years of examinations in the short period of time desired by the INPI, at least not without a risk of harm to the quality of the examination.
Marcelo de Oliveira Müller is a partner at Luiz Leonardos & Cia. He can be contacted at:
mmuller@llip.com
Marcelo de Oliveira Müller is the head of the trademarks division of Luiz Leonardos & Cia. With 18 years of practice in the trademark field, he has a degree of Master of Laws (LLM) in IP and technology law from the J. Tomas McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law, University of San Francisco School of Law (2003–2004). His areas of activity are consultancy and prosecution in the fields of agreements, trademarks, trademark registration, company names, domain names, computer programs, unfair competition, trademark counterfeiting, copyright and Internet. De Oliveira Müller is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association and is a licensed IP agent. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and French.
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