The patent system values \u200b\u200band rewards intellectual creations aimed at industry that are new, have inventive activity and industrial application, in order to recognize and encourage the technological and economic development of the country.<\/p>\n
A very common mistake when talking about patents is to imagine that only complex inventions, robust equipment or high aggregate technology, highly inventive and that present great advances in the state of the art are eligible for protection.<\/p>\n
The truth is that any solution that solves a technical problem and meets the patentability requirements, even if it is relatively simple, can benefit from patent protection.<\/p>\n
Ok, not all solutions. This is because Law No. 9,279\/96 lists some situations that are not considered inventions and, consequently, are not eligible for protection, as well as others that, by choice of the legislator, are not considered patentable. They are:<\/p>\n
Art. 10. The following are not considered inventions or utility models:<\/em><\/p>\n I \u2013 discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;<\/em><\/p>\n II \u2013 purely abstract conceptions;<\/em><\/p>\n III \u2013 commercial, accounting, financial, educational, advertising, lottery and inspection schemes, plans, principles or methods;<\/em><\/p>\n IV \u2013 literary, architectural, artistic and scientific works or any aesthetic creation;<\/em><\/p>\n V \u2013 computer programs themselves;<\/em><\/p>\n VI \u2013 presentation of information;<\/em><\/p>\n VII \u2013 game rules;<\/em><\/p>\n VIII \u2013 operative or surgical techniques and methods, as well as therapeutic or diagnostic methods, for application to the human or animal body; and<\/em><\/p>\n IX \u2013 all or part of natural living beings and biological materials found in nature, or even isolated from it, including the genome or germplasm of any natural living being and natural biological processes.<\/em><\/p>\n (…)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Art. 18. The following are not patentable:<\/em><\/p>\n I \u2013 anything that is contrary to morality, good customs and public safety, order and health;<\/em><\/p>\n II \u2013 substances, materials, mixtures, elements or products of any kind, as well as the modification of their physical-chemical properties and the respective processes of obtaining or modifying them, when resulting from the transformation of the atomic nucleus; and<\/em><\/p>\n III \u2013 all or part of living beings, except transgenic microorganisms that meet the three patentability requirements \u2013 novelty, inventive step and industrial application \u2013 provided for in art. 8 and that are not mere discoveries.<\/em><\/p>\n The limitation to the protection of these creations is based on recognizing the exclusive right, which is an important act and must be granted with great care, since it takes away from the community, or more specifically from the competition, the possibility of exploring those creations that make sense for the legal order, excluding those that may be abstract or conceptual, be they aesthetic creations, be they authorial works or computer programs in themselves, be they therapeutic or surgical methods that must have free access because they are essential to public health, those that violate morality and good customs, as well as those that do not have such a well-characterized inventive activity.<\/p>\n Again, as provided for in our Federal Constitution, the patent system only applies when it is meeting the social interest and the technological and economic development of the country <\/em>(art. 5\u00ba, XXIX).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n by Gustavo Bahuschewskyj Correa \u2013 Lawyer and Industrial Property Agent, Master in Intellectual Rights, Partner at Le\u00e3o PI.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" O sistema de patentes valoriza e premia as cria\u00e7\u00f5es intelectuais voltadas para a ind\u00fastria que sejam novas, tenham atividade inventiva e aplica\u00e7\u00e3o industrial, de modo a reconhecer e incentivar o desenvolvimento tecnol\u00f3gico e econ\u00f4mico do Pa\u00eds. Um equ\u00edvoco muito comum ao se falar de patentes \u00e9 imaginar que s\u00e3o eleg\u00edveis para a prote\u00e7\u00e3o apenas aquelas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leao-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8879,"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leao.adv.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}