Troubled times for pharma patents
On March 25, 2012, joint ordinance 1,065 was issued, suggesting severe changes to the Brazilian government’s interpretation of the country’s patent statute (Law 9,279 of May 14, 1996) in light of Article 229-C. Without a legislative change, the country’s administration (president Dilma Rousseff) has signalled major changes to patentability requirements, patent-defeating statutory provisions and patent prosecution.
