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 whichinvolving thesubmission of at least an application form, draft of descriptions, scope of claims, abstract, and proof of theapplication fee payment of the application fee must be submitted. Failure to fulfill these requirements willcauseIf these requirements are not fulfilled, INPI to issues a notification by an examiner in relation toformality, to which ; the applicant must respond to this within 30 days. If the applicant fails to respond tothe notification,Failure to respond to the notification leads to the application will bebeing deemed invalidand withdrawnal.
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publication of unexamined patent applications after 18 months from the date of application date. However,with a consideration of aconsidering the high volume of the backlog of patent applications retained bythein INPI, a filed patent application is typically publicized afterthis typically takes approximately two to
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unexamined patent applications until the end of examination, any third partiesy and the applicant (for thepurpose of assisting the examination) are allowed tomay submit their opinions for assisting theexamination.

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An applicant is required tomust file a request for examination of the application within 36 months fromthe date of application date. Failure to file a request for examination within 36 months will be ; otherwise,
deemed withdrawal of the application will be withdrawn. However, an applicant is allowed tocan recover
the withdrawn application by paying a predetermined fee within 60 days offrom the withdrawal date of thewithdrawal. . Even so, iIf an the applicant still fails to comply with the this time limit as well, theapplication will be confirmed as withdrawn.
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 theThis enables clarification or refining of thecontents of the filed application. HoweverNevertheless, any amendment should be restricted to theamendment 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 aan examiner’s notification by an examiner, —is not unacceptable if the amendment could change or

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expand the claimed scope of protection. In this sense, the only amendmentonly amendments limiting theclaimed subject matter may possiblymay be accepted.
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 If there is a non-final notification of reasons for refusal, an application may berejected. This typically occurs due toif a violation of the requirements of patentability such as lack ofnovelty and inventive stepinvention are violated. No limit is stipulated in the number of issuable officialnotifications. 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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