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Ordinance PR # 56/2021: Brazilian PTO postpones obligation to submit Sequence Listing file in Standard ST.26 format to July 2022

On December 28, the Brazilian PTO published Ordinance PR # 56/2021, with new conditions for the submission of Sequence Listing files. The new ordinance comes into effect from today (January 03, 2022), and revokes Ordinance PR # 405/2020. The previous Ordinance (PR #...

Major development in the prosecution of life sciences patents in Brazil: ANVISA is kicked out of the process

After being sanctioned by the Presidency, a Brazilian statute suppressing the role played by the National Health Surveillance Agency – ANVISA (the Brazilian FDA) in the examination of patent applications pertaining to the life sciences field was published today in the...