WE REGISTER YOUR BRAND IN BRAZIL
Start the trademark registration process in Brazil, we will advise you step by step on the details to protect your trademark in one of the most developed countries in the world.
With a population of more than 212 million inhabitants, it is one of the largest and most thriving economies and industries in the world.
That is why we also offer service payments in local currency (reais) and PIX key (only for Brazilian residents).
Brazil is a party to the Madrid Protocol.
The Madrid Protocol is an international treaty that allows the filing and registration of trademarks in more than 120 countries. The treaty, which is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), was adopted on June 27, 1989, enabling you to file your international trademark application in over 120 countries.
Trademark registration details in Brazil
Trademark protection is obtained through registration. But there are exceptions, such as the registration of foreign before well-known trademarks in the same field that are similar, imitation or translation of a national application, may invalidate the trademark registered in Brazil, according to Article 6 bis, Paris Convention.
How is the trademark registration procedure in Brazil?
The application process includes a formal examination and a distinctiveness examination, and a search for prior trademarks. It takes approximately 3 years from the first filing to registration or the first office action. Prior to registration, the trademark application is published approx. 3 months after the application date in the weekly magazine "Revista de la Propiedad Industrial". The opposition period is 60 days from the date of publication of the application.
A trademark registration in Brazil is valid for 10 years from the date of grant and has protection from the date of application/filing. The registration is renewable for periods of 10 years.
Classification of Goods / Services:
- International Classification, (Nice Classification is used in Brazil).
- Priority claim under the Paris Convention: Yes.
- Registrable: Trademarks, service marks.
- Time until issuance of the registration certificate: 40 months.
- Opposition period: 60 days.
- Renewal application: Within 12 months before expiration.
Use: Where a registered trademark has not been used continuously for the goods or services in question for 5 years from the date of registration (or the date of last use), a cancellation action may be filed by an interested person.
As from January 1, 2007, the goods and services will be specified in accordance with the standard articles of the International Classification of Goods and Services of the Nice Classification in its ninth edition (WIPO). The trademark registration in Brazil, pays values at the beginning of the trademark application and when it is granted, the title is requested where the values of its management are paid.
The fees that apply to an application in Brazil are in two stages:
Payment of rates, fees and expenses of trademark application.
Payment of rates, fees and expenses at the granting of the trademark, issuance of the title. (approximately 24 months of a normal procedure, without oppositions or hearings).
Start your trademark search and/or registration process in Brazil online, registering with your data at miregistrodemarca.com.
We are at your disposal to advise you in the process of registering your trademark.
