According to the Portuguese constitutional law, everyone has the right to create new inventions. A different issue is knowing who has the right to patent the invention, that is, who...
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The Portuguese Industrial Property Office (INPI) has entered into a cooperation protocol with the European Patent Office (EPO) that provides for the EPO to carry out research and opinion for...
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The Board of Directors of the Portuguese IP Office (INPI) has decided to eliminate the addresses or domiciles of natural persons from the database of industrial property rights accessible on...
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The President of the European Patent Office, António Campinos, and Ana Bandeira, President of the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), signed a cooperation agreement on patent searches. Under this...
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A European Patent (EP) application may generally be filed at the European Patent Office or the national Patent Office (if the national law so permits). In some countries, however, certain...
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The Portuguese Industrial Property Office (INPI) adopted Regulation 6187/2023, concerning the formal requirements of applications and documents presented in applications for registration under the Industrial Property Code. The Regulation revokes...
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The new system comprised by the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court is intended to start on 1 June 2023. Despite the fact that Portugal is one of the...
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Today we are publishing Part II of a sequence of short FAQ about the European Patent with Unitary Effect. The Part I covering Questions 1 to 4 can be found here: …
Today we start publishing a series of articles in the form of short FAQ about the European Patent with Unitary Effect (EPUE). What is the European Patent with Unitary Effect...
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In April 2022 the Industrial Property Office of Portugal has published the first notifications under the Regulation (EU) 2019/933 that introduced the “manufacturing and export waiver” concerning supplementary protection certificates (SPC). The...
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