According to Resolution No. 2024-364, published on August 28, 2024, applicants with pending patent applications claiming priority under the Paris Convention may be notified by the Patent Office to confirm whether the claimed priority has been granted in the country of origin, regardless of the current stage of their application.

This notification will be published in the Patent Gazette and must be responded to within SIXTY (60) days from the date of notification, with no extensions allowed.

Failure to respond will result in the application being considered abandoned.

In July 2024, the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) issued Resolution P-295/2024, amending the trademark opposition resolution procedure. This new regulation requires applicants who wish the Trademark Office to decide on pending ratified oppositions to pay a single official fee, regardless of the number of oppositions filed against their application. This fee must be paid within the unextendible deadline for filing a response to the ratification of the opposition, which remains unchanged. Failure to pay the fee will result in the rejection of the application.

The regulation also includes a temporary provision whereby the T.O. will request applicants who had not responded to ratified oppositions which are pending resolution to pay the official fee within the unextendible term of fifteen (15) working days of the notification; otherwise, the application will be rejected. Additionally, no new notifications of ratified oppositions will be issued until this process is completed.

It is important to note that, prior to this resolution, applicants who had received ratified oppositions against their trademark applications were not required to pay any fee nor to express their will for the Trademark Office to render a decision in the opposition process.

This measure aims to reduce the backlog of applications with ratified oppositions awaiting resolution and expedite the overall process.

On August 17, 2023, the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) issued Resolution No. 262/2023, extending WIPO’s Digital Access Service (DAS) for priority documents to applications for Trademarks and Industrial Models and Designs.

This resolution will be implemented in two stages:

• As a WIPO DAS Accessing Office, as of September 1, 2023
• As a WIPO DAS Depositing Office, as of November 1, 2023

Official fees for Trademarks, Patents and Designs are to be increased in two stages—in January and March 2023.

Fees for new trademark applications: the new trademark application fee will cover up to twenty goods or services of the selected class. An additional fee will be applied for each good or service as of the twenty-first.

The new official fees will become effective on January 2, 2023.

By means of Resolution 194/202, the National Institute of Industrial Property (ARPTO), has ended the suspension of deadlines and granted a grace period which will end on December 13.

Accordingly, all deadlines will resume on December 14, 2020.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require any information about this matter.

The National Institute of Industrial Property (ARPTO) has extended the suspension of all deadlines that were in effect as of March 12th until November 29th, 2020. The ARPTO will have its online filing system open and active for any filings.

During this time our office will operate remotely and we will be able to assist you without interruptions.

The quarantine, in effect from March 20th, has been extended until November 8th .

On the other hand, the National Institute of Industrial Property (ARPTO) extended the suspension of all deadlines that were in effect as of March 12th until November 8th, 2020. The ARPTO will have its online filing system open and active for any filings.

During this time our office will operate remotely and we will be able to assist you without interruptions.

The quarantine, in effect from March 20th, has been extended until October 25th .

On the other hand, the National Institute of Industrial Property (ARPTO) extended the suspension of all deadlines that were in effect as of March 12th until October 25th, 2020. The ARPTO will have its online filing system open and active for any filings.

During this time our office will operate remotely and we will be able to assist you without interruptions.

The quarantine, in effect from March 20th, has been extended until October 11th .

On the other hand, the National Institute of Industrial Property (ARPTO) extended the suspension of all deadlines that were in effect as of March 12th until October 11th, 2020. The ARPTO will have its online filing system open and active for any filings.

During this time our office will operate remotely and we will be able to assist you without interruptions.

The quarantine, in effect from March 20th, has been extended until September 20th .

On the other hand, the National Institute of Industrial Property (ARPTO) extended the suspension of all deadlines that were in effect as of March 12th until September 20th, 2020. The ARPTO will have its online filing system open and active for any filings.

During this time our office will operate remotely and we will be able to assist you without interruptions.