In Brazil, The the procedure for a patent application in Brazil is initiated by filing an application form
with the National Institute of Industrial Property (Portugese abbreviation: INPI), in which at least an
application form, draft of descriptions, scope of claims, abstract, and proof of payment of the application
fee must be submitted. Failure to fulfill these requirements will cause INPI to issue a notification by an
examiner in relation to formality, to which ; the applicant must respond to this within 30 days. If theapplicant fails to respond to the notification,Failure to respond to the notification leads to the application
will bebeing deemed invalid and withdrawnal.
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unexamined patent applications after 18 months from the date of application. However, with aconsideration of aconsidering the high volume of the backlog of patent applications retained by thein
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date of application. During the period from the date of the publication of unexamined patent applications
until the end of examination, any third partiesy and the applicant (for the purpose of assisting theexamination) are allowed tomay submit their opinions for assisting the examination.

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An applicant is required to file a request for examination of the application within 36 months from thedate of application. Failure to file a request for examination within 36 months will be deemed withdrawalof the application. However, an applicant is allowed tocan recover the withdrawn application by paying apredetermined fee within 60 days offrom the withdrawal date of the withdrawal. . Even so, iIf an theapplicant still fails to comply with the this time limit as well, the application will be confirmed aswithdrawn.
Further, According to the IP Code in Brazil, an applicant may beis given an opportunityallowed tosubmit amendments to the draft of descriptions and scope of claims by the time when the applicanthe/she
files a request for examination, in order to clarify or define the contents of filed application.

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HoweverNevertheless, any amendment should be restricted to the amendment of the contents first
disclosed at the time of filing an application. After an examination request for examination has been filed,
any amendment, —either by an applicant’s spontaneous decision or by a an examiner’s notification by anexaminer, —is not unacceptable if the amendment could change or expand the claimed scope ofprotection. In this sense, the only amendmentonly amendments limiting the claimed subject matter may
possiblymay be accepted.

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During the examination period of examiation, two types of official notifications will be issued, i.e.,
notification by an examiner and non-final notification of reasons for refusal will be issued. The applicant
is required tomust respond to these notifications within 90 days from the date of publication ofunexamined patent applications.
To put it simplyIn simple terms, an examiner’s notifications by an examiner are generally composed
ofcomprises formality requirements such as a violation of requirements of clarity or a violation of support
requirements. In a case of a non-final notification of reasons for refusal, an application may be rejected.
This typically occurs due to a violation of the requirements of patentability such as lack of novelty andinventive stepinvention. No limit is stipulated in the number of issuable official notifications. INPI
announces its decision to grant or refuse a patent in the publication of unexamined patent applications,thus thereby ending the examination process of examination.

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