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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In recent months, despite the challenging circumstances of the global economic scenario, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office – BPTO [National Institute of Industrial Property - INPI] has adopted initiatives seeking to reduce the time taken to examine patent applications (backlog) and aiming to encourage investment in and the development and commercialisation of new technologies. Among these initiatives are Ordinances INPI no. 294/2020, INPI no. 247/2020 and INPI no. 331/2020, which ...

The grimmest timeline in the history of public health in Brazil emerges from an investigation of directives issued by the government of President Jair Messias Bolsonaro relating to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a common effort undertaken since March 2020, the Center for Research and Studies in Public Health Law (CEPEDISA) of the Public Health College (FSP) of the University of São Paulo (USP) and Conectas Direitos Humanos, one of the most respected justice organizations of Latin America, have collected and scrutinized federal and state regulations relating to the novel coronavirus, producing a...