What is a patent?

A patent for an invention is granted by government to the inventor, giving the inventor the right for a limited period to stop others from making, using or selling the invention without the permission of the inventor. When a patent is granted, the invention becomes the property of the inventor, which - like any other form of property or business asset - can be bought, sold, rented or hired.
Patents are territorial rights; Brazilian Patent will only give the holder rights within the Brazilian Territory and rights to stop others from importing the patented products into Brazil.

What kinds of things do patents cover?

Patents are generally intended to cover products or processes that possess or contain new functional or technical aspects; patents are therefore concerned with, for example, how things work, what they do, how they do it, what they are made of or how they are made. The vast majority of patents are for incremental improvements in known technology; it has been said that innovation is evolution rather than revolution.

Documents and information required to file a patent application in Brazil:

• Name and complete qualification of the inventor or inventors;
• Name and complete qualification of the applicant;
• Inventor Document of transferring patent rights to the applicant (in case of the company be the owner of the rights of the patent developed by a employee or by somebody else);
• Complete description of the patent object with designs that can be capable to show all the structural and functional aspects of the product or process (if needed);
• What is know in the corresponding market;
• All the advantages of the invention regarding what is know in the market;
• If the patent already was requested in other country less than one year and to claim the first deposit date priority, we need official certificate of patent request with number, date and title;
• Power of Attorney (Provided by our company).

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