The BPTO (Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office) released in the last days of the year 2023, its 2024 Action Plan, consisting of 34 goals and 48 strategic initiatives, that will guide the Office’s work throughout the year.

With the mission of boosting innovation and business generation, leveraging income and employment through industrial property, the BPTO aims to consolidate itself as an office recognized for quality and efficiency, in line with the best international standards.

Among the strategic objectives set are the optimization of quality and agility in the granting and registration of industrial property rights.

For example, the BPTO has set itself the goal of reaching a decision on a technical examination of a patent application within 4.5 years. For trademark applications, the target is to obtain a decision in 18 months for applications where there is no opposition from third parties, and up to 22 months for applications with opposition.

In addition, the BPTO aims to promote the culture and strategic use of industrial property to foster competitiveness, innovation and development in Brazil, consolidating the country as a leading player in the international IP system, and raising society’s awareness of the issue.

To this end, among other initiatives, the BPTO intends to promote the restructuring of the BPTO’s career and position plan, implement process automation solutions and systems to review the quality of examination, including the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence).

The expectation is that the implementation of these goals will bring greater speed and quality to the technical examination undertaken by the BPTO, bringing legal certainty and efficiency to users of the system in Brazil.

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Author: Camila Cardeira Pinhas Pio Soares and Cesar Peduti Filho, Peduti Advogados.

Source: “INPI divulga Plano de Ação 2024 com projetos e metas” + https://www.gov.br/inpi/pt-br/governanca/planejamento-estrategico/pa2024_vf_27-12-2023.pdf (se tiver)

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