6 December 2018PatentsGustavo Sartori and Rana Gosain

Brazil patent examination: Defying the backlog

For many years, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) has been facing a huge backlog of pending patent applications. Currently, a patent application takes 11 years to be granted, on average; depending on the technical field, a grant decision can be even longer.

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