By Flávia Benzatti Tremura Polli Rodrigues

Kasznar Leonardos is proud to announce that 3 of our partners have been elected as new members of INTA Committee. Rafael Lacaz … Kasznar Leonardos appointed to INTA committee 2024-2025

Our partners Luciana Yumi Hiane Minada and Flávia T. Polli Rodrigues will be participating in the 2023 edition of the MARQUES Annual … Kasznar Leonardos will be at Marques 2023

We are very proud to announce that Kasznar Leonardos has been recognized as one of the Best Law firms in 10 areas … Kasznar Leonardos was ranked on Leaders League 2023

We, from Kasznar Leonardos, attended the International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting 2023, which took place in Singapore from May 15th to … Kasznar Leonardos attends the INTA Annual Meeting 2023

On December 28, 2022, the Brazilian PTO published Technical Note no. 03.2022, updating the procedures for exam of forfeiture requests, originally regulated … Analysis Of Evidence Of Use Became More Thorough In The Forfeiture Procedure

WIPO proposes the creation of a footnote to address the legal requirement of appointment of a Brazilian attorney in Brazilian IR designations … Madrid Protocol & the Requirement of a Local Attorney in Brazil

The BPTO (Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office) published on September 08, 2020, a communication informing the new date for co-ownership in trademark … The co-ownership system of trademarks will be in force on September 15, 2020

The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) is finishing the last adjustments for starting Madrid Protocol procedures in Brazil. In the last … Madrid Protocol takes effect in Brazil

The Madrid Protocol for International Trademarks has just been enacted in Brazil, on June 26, 2019. The Protocol is an international treaty … Brazil joins the Madrid Trademark System

The Federal Senate has approved, last month, the Draft Legislative Decree 98/2019, that foresees Brazil's accession to the Madrid Protocol. The text, … Brazil is getting ready for the Madrid Protocol: new procedures for Trademark Registration

On 22 December 2017 came into force the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency’s (ANVISA) Service Orientation no. 43/2017 (OS 43/17), establishing objective and … New regulation for registration and posterior modifications of name of drugs and biological products before ANVISA

On August 19, 2013 the Brazilian PTO published the Resolution number 17/2013, which sets the new rules for recognizing the highly reputed trademark status. This resolution will be enforced on the date of the publication of the new official fees for this procedure, but, until now, the BPTO has not estimated yet when it will be published.

The main innovation brought by this Resolution is the adoption of a standalone procedure, which allows the titleholder to require, at any time, the recognition of high reputation for its trademark before the Brazilian PTO. This request can be made when registering the mark, without the need of third parties' procedures.