CHAPTER VIII
TRADEMARKS AND PATENTS
That it is necessary to modify the requirements of the procedures contained in the Laws under the competence of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, No. 24,481 -on Patents of Invention and Utility Models-, No. 22,362 -on Trademarks and Designations-, and in Decree-Law No. 6. 673/63 -on Industrial Models and Designs-, with the purpose of providing efficiency and quality in the rendering of services provided by the agency, proposing especially to reduce the burdens weighing on those administered, shortening the term in the procedures in order to avoid unnecessary delays in the final resolution, tending to the reduction of bureaucracy in the procedures and the adaptation in the presentation of documents to the digital platforms used by the agency and those under development to be implemented in the short term in the Institute, thus facilitating access to the general public to the registration of those intangibles, especially to innovators, small entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises, who usually access for the first time to obtain industrial property rights.
That, in the field of Patents of Invention and Utility Models, it is necessary to adjust procedural terms and the reengineering of certain processes, in order to generate greater commercial productivity on a global scale for innovators, small entrepreneurs, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and national companies.
That, in the trademark field, it is appropriate to implement an administrative procedure for the parties, prior to the judicial instance, for the treatment and resolution of the oppositions to the trademark registration applications, simplifying the system, reducing terms in the obtaining of the resolutions, for the benefit of the administered and the system in general, As well as in the Models and Designs that, with the proposed amendments, users will be able to file multiple applications for registration per file, adopt new technologies in the way of filing drawings, and request the postponement of publication, a very useful issue to protect the industrial model or design before its effective commercialization.
That all this translates directly into a simplification of regulations and of the registration process.
