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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According to the Decision No. 447/2024 of the Management Board of the Portuguese IP Office and the Government Regulation No. 201-A/2019, new official fees are applicable in the Industrial Property...
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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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According to the Decision No. 680/2022 of the Management Board of the Portuguese IP Office and the Government Regulation No. 201-A/2019, new official fees are applicable in the Industrial Property...
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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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According to the Decision No. 711/2020 of the Management Board of the IP Office and the Government Regulation No. 1098/2008, new official fees are applicable in the Industrial Property Office of Portugal...
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The well-known international magazine Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) has named Simões Garcia Corte-Real & Associados “Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year” in Portugal for the work performed in 2019. Our...
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The Decree Law 16/2020 published on 15 April 2020, established that all acts at the Industrial Property Office must be submitted exclusively through the online services. In result of this...
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The Covid-19 pandemic is having disrupting effects all over the world and has also taken its toll on IP matters. Below is the situation in the main IP agencies and...
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