On January 01, 2023, a new cycle of requests to participate in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program began. The PPH program is a bilateral...
OUR TEAM
Guilherme Coutinho
Patent Specialist
Patent specialist for Chemical and Life Science. Acts upon prosecution of applications with the Brazilian PTO, focused on technical activities. His experience includes analysis, communication and response of office actions and patentability analyses.
Practice Areas
Patents
Chemical
Life Sciences
Chemical
Life Sciences
Education
Master of Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with master thesis about technological, marketing and forecasting studies related to sectors of industrial technological development;
Post-graduated in Processing, Management and Environment in the Oil and Natural Gas Sector by the PRH/ANP program of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ);
Graduated in Industrial Chemistry at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with final graduation work on waste treatment and environment.
Post-graduated in Processing, Management and Environment in the Oil and Natural Gas Sector by the PRH/ANP program of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ);
Graduated in Industrial Chemistry at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with final graduation work on waste treatment and environment.
Affiliations, Commissions and Collegiate
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Articles
PPH requests have reached 90% of the threshold for full year 2022
With the limit of 800 requests per annual cycle, the PPH Program is almost reaching the threshold for 2022. According to new Brazilian PTO’s...
PPH requests reached over half the annual threshold by Abril 2022
With a limit of 800 participation requests per annual cycle, the PPH Program had already reached more than half of this threshold by April of this...
New ordinances relating to the accelerated patent prosecution in Brazil come into force in early 2022
The Brazilian PTO published at the end of last year new ordinances # 53, 54 and 55, which regulate the accelerated patent prosecution of patent...
Brazil’s Patent System: Latest Statistics on Efforts to Reduce the Backlog and the Road Ahead
“The plan to combat the backlog in the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office has already resulted in a reduction of more than 60% of patent...
Backlog combat programme: Brazilian PTO reaches its highest patent decision indicators
The issue of reducing the backlog of the examination of patent applications has become a priority for the Brazilian PTO. In 2019, a programme aiming...
The Brazilian PPH “Fast Track” Program – One year on
It is one year since the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO) published Rule 252/2019, unifying the procedure for requesting participation...
Phase II of Patent Prosecution highway 9 (PPH) will be implemented with some modifications
The Brazilian PTO published today Phase II (Ordinance No. 404/2020) of Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program, implementing new rules for the...