Annuity payment control will be made easier

Summary:

The Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has issued Portaria INPI/PR nu00c2u00ba 52, which will come into effect on January 1st, 2024. The new norm aims to improve the formal and normative aspects related to the control of patent annuities, archiving, and extinction. The portaria presents several advantages, including the improvement of terms and language used, better organization of the normative text, and homogenization of terminological usage. Furthermore, the new norm allows for the approval of advance payments within certain conditions and the taking into account of payments made after archiving or extinction of a patent.

Key points:

The new portaria will be published in the Revista da Propriedade Industrial (RPI) editions 2763 and 2764.
The norm aims to improve the formal and normative aspects of patent annuities, archiving, and extinction.
Advance payments will be allowed within certain conditions, such as within 3 months prior to the beginning of the ordinary term of the annual fee and if previous annuities are regular.
Payments made after archiving or extinction of a patent will be taken into account, providing for the possibility of complementing the payment if necessary.
* The new portaria revokes Resoluu00e7u00e3o nu00c2u00b0 113/2013 and articles 1u00c2u00b0 (inciso II) and 5u00c2u00b0 of Portaria nu00c2u00b0 302/2020.