Brazilian Products

05/03/2009
With a total of 124.660 requests of brands deposited at the National Institute of the Industrial Property (Inpi), in 2008, of the which 70% of national companies, Brazil is now one of the ten main countries of the world in requests of presented brandas. The evaluation was made by the general director of the first regional office of the World Organization of the Intellectual Property (Ompi) in Rio de Janeiro, Jose Graca Aranha.   
   
In relation to the requests of patents done at the country, Brazil is leader in Latin America, with 26.232 requests last year. But, in the world in development, it is behind China and  South Korea, for instance, although very near of India, said Aranha.  
 
As temporary rising published by Ompi in January of this year, Brazil went up three positions in the ranking of depositing of patents, passing of the 27th for to 24th classification. In the Bric group, formed by Brazil, Russia, India and China, the report of Ompi reveals that only China and Brazil showed increase in the number of requests of international patents in 2008 in relation to the previous year. The total of Brazilian deposits arose from 396 to 451, overcoming countries like Ireland (444) and South Africa (382). 
 
Jose Graaca Aranha evaluated that Brazil completes, next week, 200 years of the first legislation of intellectual property with progresses along the time. Brazil was one of the first countries to adopt a law on the subject, in 1809. “Without a doubt that to the long of those 200 years the juridical mark developed vastly”, he said.  
 
He affirmed that the system will continue to be improved, as it is happening in the last years. It exists a larger understanding today on the importance of the protection of the industrial property. “We have to work so that that theme is demystified and that the companies and the people can use that system in a more efficient way.” 
 
What needs, as it indicated the general director of Ompi, it is the system to be developed “in the sense that he is less expensive for the title-holders of the marks, of the patents, of the drawings, finally, of the creations. For the user to can, by all possible means that  exist nowadays of the computer science, of the internet, to have more access and protection in shorter time and spending much less”.  
 
The Office of Technical Cooperation and Qualification for Latin America and Caribbean of Ompi will work to develop mechanisms to reduce the costs and facilitate the users' life,  affirmed Jose Graca Aranha. On the other hand, it expressed pessimism as for the evolution, this year, of an international agreement for protection of genetic resources, of folklore and of traditional knowledge, as they want the Brazilian government and other countries of the area.  
 
The subject is in the line of Ompi eight years ago, but the progresses have not been large. Aranha assured that the subject is important to Brazil because it can contemplate in other areas, as the biodiversity.  
 
“In my personal opinion, I think should not have a great change. Regarding the Brazilian government and other interested governments in the theme, it exists a mobilization so that there is progress in that areas, because they are important for the development of the country. We almost have a fourth of the biodiversity of the planet”, he said.

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