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Trademark applications and any other trademark related request can be filed online through the eMarcas system.
In calendar year 2014, the Industrial Property National Institute (INPI) of Brazil received 157,016 applications for the registration of a trademark. The decrease was 4.02 percent over prior year results.
The INPI issued 85,810 certificates of registration and renewed 14,200 marks in calendar year 2014.
Additional statistical data are available at the following address: http://www.inpi.gov.br/estatisticas.
Information regarding filing applications and other trademark related requests are available online at the following address.
http://www.inpi.gov.br/menu-servicos/marcas
Status information, processing histories and access to documents related to pending and registered trademarks are available online at the following address.
https://gru.inpi.gov.br/pePI/jsp/marcas/Pesquisa_classe_basica.jsp
Since 2000 new trademark applications must be filed using the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification) and the International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (Vienna Classification).
The Institute uses all three levels of the Vienna classification for all trademarks in the database for applications and registrations. The classification must be furnished initially by the applicant but is subject to review and corrections by the Institute.
The eMarcas e-filing system for applications and every other trademark related request is available at the following address.
http://www.inpi.gov.br/menu-servicos/marcas/e-marcas
The INPI extracts text and image data to generate the weekly publication of the electronic Industrial Property Gazette (Revista da Propriedade Industrial — RPI) in PDF format. The textual elements of these products are exported from the Institute’s central database along with the representations of the marks which are extracted from a database of digitized and digital images, automatically inserted into the layout. The Gazette is posted on the Institute's website available at the following address.
http://revistas.inpi.gov.br/rpi/
The textual data published in the Gazette is also made available in a XML file.
A Push system is also available which sends an email alert each time an office action is published in the Gazette for the files chosen by the user.
http://formulario.inpi.gov.br/Push/pages/login.jsf
The Institute does not maintain a manual search file. All searches are performed using an automated system.
The Trademark Directorate currently use the following systems for trademarks administration and examination: » IPAS JAVA (Industrial Property Automation System) – Trademark examination system used since June 2013 to replace the previously used system, SINPI, which was developed in Delphi and used client-server technology. The IPAS was developed by WIPO, it uses web technology, was written using Java language and runs on an Oracle database. It has integration with all other systems used by the Trademarks Directorate. The IPAS uses a document management system named EDMS, which is based on the Nuxeo Platform. » eMarcas – Electronic online filing system for trademarks. The eMarcas system was built using web technology. It was developed using JAVA and runs on Oracle database. It has integration with IPAS and the payment system control, PAG. This system was developed internally at INPI. » PUSH – System that allows the customer to track the progress of his trademark application process, and informs electronically every time there is a publication in the journal. » PAG – It is the online payments system and is used for the reception of paper documents. Also developed internally at INPI using web technology. » pPI is a web based search engine for Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Design and Computer Program applications since 1986. This database is available through Internet and allows searching bibliographic text and viewing Trademark images.
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
In order to support business processes related to the IPO, the core ICT solutions are divided in the following levels:
(i) Information Security Infrastructure: Essentially, this environment guarantees that information is protected from intentional or accidental modifications, by using the Fortnet firewall (Fortigate 1000C) for filtering, VPN controlling and Spam controlling. This hardware also acts as an IDS agent to inspect the inbound and outbound network activity identifying suspicious patterns, including Internet traffic. The INPI uses another kind of firewall to isolate networks like PROSUR, where the support is obtained from the pfSense-br.org. To complement this structure, the FortiAnalyzer guarantees the integration of network logging, analysis and reporting into a system with the view to create knowledge of security events throughout the network.
(ii) Networking Infrastructure: The focus of this structure is to maintain connectivity between LAN and the server farm, employing the central switch Matrix N-7 from Enterasys. As this switch is located in the INPI 's Datacenter, it has the function of concentrating all the incoming connections from the offices of INPI. This infrastructure is complemented by the SAN switches from Brocade to support connections in fiber channel to the Virtualization Infrastructure, Storage Infrastructure and Backup Infrastructure. A Wireless Internet network with 100 access points ensures that all floors of the two main buildings have Internet access. The Internet link consists on a High Load Balance through one internet connection links with 100Mbps speed. The Central Data Center in Rio de Janeiro is interconnected with 14 branch regional offices with a MPLS connection with 30Mbps.
(iii) Virtualization Infrastructure: The DataCenter has HP Blade Servers with 16 Blades under two Intel Xeon Quad-core 2.83 Ghz processors and 32GB RAM. All hosts are built in virtual machines running operating systems over the virtualization platform from vMware mounted with vSphere 5.1 and vCenter 5.1. With more than 160 virtual machines, the operating systems are distributed through Windows Server 2012 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters.
(iv) Storage Infrastructure: To provide rapid response in all IT environments, INPI invested in the Hitachi High End VSP solution, that is responsible to maintain the information stored in 80 Terabytes with Raid 6 array ensuring availability required to the business process. The backup architecture is base on a tape robot storage.
(v) Desktop Infrastructure: The computers used to support the business process are based in the solution from Itautec Infoway ST4273 with two monitor with 21 inches per research.
The library catalog, designed in MARC format, is available for the general public through INPI’s website (http://biblioteca.inpi.gov.br/sophia_web/index.html). The public can access the collection and other electronic resources in OPAC terminals, at the Library's Reading Room. As a WIPO Depository Library, the library staff catalogs the intellectual property publications and make it available for the general public by electronic catalog and alerts. Also, the library is a member of the Brazilian Bibliographical Exchange Program - COMUT, provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, which has more than 2,500 other partner libraries.
The library’s technical literature collection covers all aspects of intellectual property with its holdings of some 15,000 references, between monographs, articles, book chapters and over 30,000 electronic periodical titles, provided by Capes Consortia. In the scope of trademarks, the library has about 800 references. Also, the library has 113 titles in intellectual property and related areas, which include trademarks information. These materials can be consulted in the Library's Reading Room. Also, the library electronic catalog is available by Internet on the INPI website.
The library belongs to Capes Consortia, from the Ministry of Education, comprising 422 other libraries from Brazilian academic institutions. It allows INPI to have access to ‘Portal Periódicos Capes”, a great virtual library which contains more 30,000 electronic periodicals and 400 reference databases.
The library offers training courses for the use of electronic catalog and Portal Periódicos Capes, teaching users to search in different fields of knowledge, including technical literature in trademarks and related areas.
In regards to the International exchange of trademark information in machine-readable form (e.g., Official Gazettes), our Industrial Property Gazette is available in our homepage.
Additional materials, including the Trademark User Manual and Examination Guidelines, which explain various aspects of the trademark system in Brazil, are also available at the Institutes website.