IPTango: e-marcas

Monday, 12 March 2012

INPI publishes a basic guide for trade marks

Patricia Covarrubia March 12, 2012 No comments:

In another attend to help its citizens the Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propiedade Industrial

(INPI) has made available a trade mark manual which claims to be fully adapted to the recent launched e-marks and INPI’s Internet Portal. The manual is said to be safer and simple to use and thus helping the increase of further trade marks applications.

Madrid Protocol
I noticed that in the news released INPI mentioned that e-Marcas 2.0 will open the way for future multi-class applications as well as co-owned ones which, as the news noted, are requirements on the Madrid Protocol. Will this year be ‘the’ year for Brazil to access the Madrid Protocol? Watch this space!

The news finished by mentioning that INPI will use later this year the ‘Property Automation System’ (IPAS) which was developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Source INPI.

Friday, 13 January 2012

Rock, paper........Internet

Patricia Covarrubia January 13, 2012 No comments:

Brazil is not only implementing a speedy system for the application of trade marks made on the Internet, the so-called e-marcas. On January 10th, the Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propiedad Indusdrial (INPI) made official the new procedures to speed up and simplify the processing of trade mark applications made in paper. The news was brought by statement in the new User Manual (Manual do Usuário) for applications in paper, which will be available on INPI’s Portal on 16th January.

Therefore, starting next Monday, the requests sent to INPI will receive their definitive number by which users will follow the entire procedure. Thus, the examination of formal requirements will be done more quickly, and in electronic media since all the application progress can be check with ‘the’ numbers provided.

Any formal requirements will be published in the Journal of Industrial Property (Revista da Propriedade Industrial), available on INPI’s Portal. It is advisable for the users to be alert of the Journal since the deadline to comply with formal requirements is five days.
Fulfilled all requirements, the request goes to the technical examination. INPI informs that this is already the procedure for requests made through e-marcas.

INPI also notes that “today the applications on paper represent less than 30% of the total. Requests made through Internet represent the majority because they have discounts and are simpler for the user.”

I guess that what INPI is saying to applications is choose wisely as in rock, paper, scissors(represented here by the Internet), because the latter defeats paper.

Source INPI.

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.