BRAZIL – BR
Jurisdiction - General Information
Brazil has been a Contracting Party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
since July 7, 1884. It has also been a Contracting Party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) since April
9, 1978, and is also a party to the Patent Law Treaty (PLT).
Brazil is also part of the regional IP information platform LATIPAT and a member of the "SISTEMA DE
COOPERACIÓN SOBRE ASPECTOS DE INFORMACIÓN OPERACIONAL Y DE PROPIEDAD INDUSTRIAL"(PROSUR).
More legal information about intellectual property-related laws and regulations of Brazil can be foundon WIPO Lex.

Online Patent Register and Online Gazette
Brazil has an Online Register and an Online Gazette.

Features and search functionalities
The Online Register has a Portuguese interface.
Through the Online Register you can retrieve information on PCT National Phase Entry, Fee Payment,
Legal Status, and access the Dossier/File Wrapper Information and the Full Publications.
The Online Register can also be searched by PCT Application/Publication Number, byApplicant/Inventor Name, and by Priority Data.
The Online Gazette ("Revista da Propriedade Indsutrial") is published weekly in Portuguese. It issearchable by number and downloadable in PDF or text format. The current coverage is from 1992 topresent.
LATIPAT provides some bibliographic data and information about the Legal Status of Latin Americanpatents. For more information about LATIPAT, consult the detailed jurisdiction file.
PROSUR offers a search engine for patents at this link which, however, does not appear to be
operational at the moment.

Additional Information
Particularities of patent protection in Brazil
Article 40 of the Brazilian patent law 9,279/96 provides a term of validity of 20 years from filing but alsoa minimum period of protection of 10 years from grant.

Search tips
The search interface of the Online Register can be accessed without registration by clicking on theyellow highlighted word "Continuar...", then selecting " Patente", and finally "Pesquisa Avancada" toaccess more search fields.
To search by PCT Application/Publication Number, enter e.g., US2011035270 as "Numero do Deposito
PCT".
To access information about the PCT National Phase Entry, enter e.g., "BR 11 2014 028847 0" for "No doPedido" (Application number), or " US2011035270" for "Numero do Deposito PCT", see "(85) Início daFase Nacional".
Fee Payment information can be retrieved in the section "Petições". Explanation codes are available
under "Serviço".
Full Publications are available by selecting "Documentos Publicados" on the bottom of the bibliographicrecord.
Legal Status Events are reported as codes, e.g. for PI 9909239-5, "16.1" in column "Despacho" indicatesthe grant and "24.8" the lapse of the patent.
To access the Dossier/File Wrapper Information, go to this link and input the gazette (revista) numberor the particular patent application (pedido) number in the format, e.g. “102012000753” for theapplication number “BR102012000753-3”.
On the page of the Online Gazette, only the last few numbers are displayed, but searching in the archive
1992-present is possible by clicking on "BUSCAR PATENTES" and then by inserting a number or a rangeof dates.