Brazil was always well provided with patent laws of complex
technical and legal consequence. Fourth country in the world to enact a patent
law (in 1809), it was a founding member of the Paris Convention in 1882 and
remained a full-fledged party to such treaty since then. Patents received
Constitutional acceptance in the first Imperial Charter of 1824, and further
Republican Constitutions provided for patent protection (and eventually,
trademarks) in their Bill of Rights.
See
here a memo on the 1996 Industrial Property Law
See also:
A
note on the Term of Brazilian Patents under TRIPs (1997)
Brazilian
Patent Office English Page
Text
of the 1996 Industrial Property Law
