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Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
The 33,916 patent and utility model applications filed in 2013 consisted of 26,066 non-resident and 7,850 resident applications. In 2014, with 33,076 applications filed, the number of resident applications has dropped and achieved 7,297 (-7%), while non-resident applications has also dropped but by a more modest rate (-1.1%) and presented 25,779. Despite this result, resident and non-resident share has no relevant change of total applications received by the Brazilian IP Office, with about 77% of non-resident applications. When considering countries’ origin for patent and utility model together, the participation of U.S. (with 29%) outperforms the Brazil (with 22%).
Over this period, the Brazilian IP Office (INPI) has seen a stable number of patent applications, from 30,884 in 2013 to 30,342 in 2014 (-1.8%). It contrasts with the trend for utility model applications in the same period, which presented a fall of 9.8%: from 3,032 utility model applications in 2013 to 2,734 applications in 2014.
Regarding the grants, in 2014, Brazil granted over 3,100 patents (2,749 patents and 367 utility models). Out of this total, 2,390 were granted to non-resident (2,375 patents and 15 utility models) and 726 for residents (374 patents and 352 utility models). Among the main foreign countries that were awarded with patent grants in 2014 are the United States of America with 33% of the non-resident total, Germany with 17% and Japan with 8%.
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
Others statistics related to Brazilian patents applications are available at http://www.inpi.gov.br/estatisticas.
II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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Main types of publications of the Office (patent applications, full text, first pages, abstracts, bibliographic data, granted patents, etc.), medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URLs)
Since April 2005, official notices and selected bibliographic data relating to BR patent applications and granted patents are published in the official weekly electronic Brazilian Official Gazette (Revista da Propriedade Industrial - RPI). Official gazettes are available on the Brazilian Patent Office website in PDF and TXT format, at http://revistas.inpi.gov.br/rpi/, and all published officials gazettes are stored in the library available to the public. Bibliographic data of Brazilian patents are available for consultation at an internal database (SINPI) and at internet (www.inpi.gov.br). Keyword searches in titles or abstracts are available only in Portuguese. Brazilian patent documents' first pages contain bibliographic data, according to WIPO standards.
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
Since April 2005, official notices and selected bibliographic data relating to BR patent applications and granted patents are published in the official weekly electronic Brazilian Official Gazette (Revista da Propriedade Industrial - RPI). Official gazettes are available on the Brazilian Patent Office website in PDF and TXT format, at http://revistas.inpi.gov.br/rpi/, and all published officials gazettes are stored in the library available to the public.
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases
INPI has a collection of DVD and CD-ROM containing published or granted US, Benelux, WO, EP, DE, ES, FR, JP, KR,OA CH, GB and TR patent documents, and paper copies of entire documents can be provided for internal or external demands.
INPI has also a paper collection of BR, US, WO, EP, AU, CA, NL, DE, CH, GB and FR patent documents classified according to the IPC and a microform patent document collection from BR, ES, US, FR, GB, DE and CH. This collection has been frozen since the implementation of search systems.
Internal users access CD-ROM, DVD, Epoque, Dialog, Thomson Reuters’ GENESEQ, CAS-STN, Vantage Point, Freely accessible databases on Internet and SINPI (Integrated System of Industrial Property - internal database).
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
By the payment of charges, external users can order patent searches (validity, freedom-to-operate, closest prior art, novelty and inventive step, etc.), as well as Patent Landscaping Reports.
Free of charge, INPI elaborates sectoral studies in partnership with other government institutions and Patent Landscape Reports in the areas of government interest that are made public via our website.
INPI also gives public access to its patent, trademarks, industrial designs and computer software databases free search tool through our website.
Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
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Patent library: equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries
INPI’s library has computers, microfilm and microfiche readers, and is a member of the national COMUT program, for collaboration with other libraries in Brazil.
The library catalog, design in MARC format, is avaiable for the general public by INPI website. The public can consult ante the collection and others electronic resources in OPAC terminals, at the Library's Reading Room. As a WIPO Depository Library, the library staff catalog the intellectual property publications and make it available for the general public. Also, the library is a member of the Brazilian Bibliographical Exchange Program - COMUT, provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, it has more about 2,500 others partner libraries.
Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
INPI’s library has many different books, thesis, periodicals and other publications available to the public, all about Industrial Property.
Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
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Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
INPI develops sectoral studies in partnership with universities, research centers and government institutions aiming at the dissemination of the strategic use of patent information by teaching the partners how to perform patent searches and how to use the results in sectoral studies.
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
We offer the following courses: “Intellectual Property for Librarians”; “Portal Periódicos CAPES Consortia / technical literature databases” for patent examiners in different fields: Biotechnology, Chemistry (pharmaceuticals), Chemistry (organic and inorganic), Engineering, Architecture, Electronics, Physics and related areas and “Portal Periódicos CAPES Consortia / technical literature databases for Innovation Units”.
INPI provides free of charge Patent Search tutorials in our website. Also we offer patent search and Landscape courses with different levels of difficulties.
Other activities
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION
International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information
INPI sends to 18 countries/organizations the bibliographic data and electronic copies of the whole patent applications and granted patents, as soon as the domestic publication occurs. Since 2011, INPI is publishing the intermediate patent documents such as examination and search reports and granted patents at the internet by the e-patents platform.
Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information
INPI participates in the LATIPAT, PROSUR and IBEPI initiatives, besides sending to WIPO’s PatentScope and ESPACENET the bibliographic data and electronic copies of the whole patent applications and granted patents.
The INPI also participates in PROSUL and IBEPI. PROSUL is a regional initiative on technical cooperation among the National Industrial Property Offices in South America. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam and Uruguay are part of PROSUL. The project is financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). In the organization chart of PROSUL, there is a Patent Committee, which is responsible for cooperation in patent area and to discuss collaborative examination. There is also a Diffusion Technology Committee to develop the conversation about public domain.
The Ibero-American Industrial Property Program (IBEPI) exists under the Ibero-American General Secretary (SEGIB). Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic and Uruguay are part of the group. In IBEPI, there is an Information Technology Committee, which produces thematic reports and discusses cooperation from the information contained in patent files.
Assistance to developing countries
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