27 November 2014Jurisdiction reportsRodrigo Souto Maior and Tatiana Saad Salles

The battle between public and private interest

The Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which has two specialist panels hearing IP cases against the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (INPI), has recently issued a decision guarding parties’ freedom of interest against an attempt to use the public interest to invalidate a set of patents.

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