IPTango: Portugal

Thursday, 10 November 2016

Trending in Latin America #shareknowledge

Patricia Covarrubia November 10, 2016 No comments:

This month we hear some news from the Brazilian Minister of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, Gilberto Kassab, and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, Manuel Heitor, who are negotiating a partnership to promote scientific and technological research.

The bilateral meeting is a step to both countries to “develop a new scientific, technological and business agenda” and looking also in how they could attract other states in the Atlantic. The idea is to “develop the Centro de Pesquisa Internacional dos Açores (AIR Center)”. By this new partnership they plan to invite the rest of the Atlantic to develop a platform of cooperation.

In the last couple of weeks we have covered in one way or another Research and Development (R&D) and the importance of it. Added to this we continue to encourage and explain the role of intellectual property -- especially in cases of transfer of knowledge.

Indeed we are seen a trend in Latin America (and it is a good trend) --starting from the incentives and propaganda that Governments and other NGO are imparting i.e. to share knowledge, and finally seen different campaigns run by national intellectual property offices educating natural and legal process to protect their knowledge.

Source Brazilian Minister of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications.

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Brazil and Portugal: reaffirming cooperation between national Institutes of Industrial Property

Patricia Covarrubia March 29, 2011 No comments:

The industrial property offices of Brazil and Portugal are already working on a plan to advance the cooperation between them, with the renewal of the current Memorandum of Understanding, planned for April. The two Institute Nacional da Propiedad Industrial - INPI’s presidents, Jorge Avila and Leonor Trindade, met on March 21, 2011 at the Institute of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the prioritisation of some issues. For instance: to promote the exchange of patent examiners, to deepen the discussion on the creation of the trade mark ‘lusófona’ and work together to develop the area of IP in Portuguese speaking African countries.

According to the news, Portugal’s INPI has computerized all its procedures, with 99% of trade mark applications and 97% of patent applications made online. The institute has also innovated in the Portuguese working model offered to its employees, having successfully implemented teleworking, giving the option to examiners and technologists to work from home.

Some IPTango moves

* Listed as one of the "Best blogs on Intellectual and Industrial Property Law". The University of Alicante Intellectual Property & Information Technology Project (UAIPIT).

* One of the only two Latin American blog listed in the "Top 100 Intellectual Property Blogs". Feedspot, as of May 2021.

* Listed as one of the "Top 15 Blogs For An Intellectual Property (IP) Enthusiasts". Buzzfeed.com, January 2017.

* Listed as one of the "World's Best IP Blogs". BananaIP.com, December 2015.

* IPTango founder Professor Jeremy Phillips was listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Listed as one of the "Influential intellectual property blawgs". A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, Peter Groves, 2011.

* Listed as one of the "Communities of Blawgers". Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0. para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho, Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, 2010.