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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 13:00:10+00:00

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Proposal of resolution to fight the patent backlog without costs and increasing revenues is presented by Gustavo Leonardos to the Executive Secretary of the Ministery of the Development, Industry and Commerce.
Subject: Establishes rules on the administrative procedure regarding priority examination of patent applications subject to the sole paragraph of article 40 of Law No. 9.279/1996 (IPL).
Art. 1. This resolution provides for the priority examination administrative procedure of patent applications falling, or about to fall, within the sole paragraph of article 40 of the IPL.
Art. 2. All the patent applications pending for more than 9 (nine) years and 6 (six) months counted from the respective filing date referred to in article 40 of the IPL are subject to the present legal provision.
Art. 3. For the purposes of this Resolution, the applicants or holders of patent applications that fall within the previous article, or even third parties, may submit a request for priority examination before the BPTO based on grant of rejection decision of these patent applications issued by any of the Patent Offices participating to the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH), such as, for instance, the EPO, USPTO and JPO.
3) submit certified translation of the foreign patent or patent application that served as the basis for the priority examination request.
Art. 5. The decision granting the priority examination request under the above conditions shall express its agreement with the decision of the corresponding foreign patent or patent application.
Art. 6. The decision rejecting the priority examination request under the above conditions shall detail the points on which its disagreement is based.
Art. 7. The grant or final rejection decision of patent applications having the examination prioritized under the above conditions shall be published in the Industrial Property Gazette (RPI) within 6 (six) months counted from the filing of the priority examination request, thus, respecting the principle of efficiency, foreseen in article 37, caput, and § 3 and § 6, of the Constitution.
Art. 8. This Resolution does not apply to the patent applications that depend on the prior consent of the National Health Surveillance Agency - ANVISA under article 229-C of the IPL.

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