A group of ten associations representing productive and innovation sectors launched a manifesto in defense of the INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property).
The document, addressed to the Ministry of Economy and Congress, asks for a recomposition of the budget for the year and the approval of a tender to hire new servers.
“A drastic reduction in the INPI’s budget is incompatible with the search for development of the Brazilian innovation sector”, says the manifesto, which has the main entities of the pharmaceutical sector among the signatories, such as FarmaBrasil, Sindusfarma and PróGenéricos.
The document also says that the body responsible for approving patents in the country already has fewer servers than would be necessary to meet the volume of annual processes, which affects the innovative sector and delays the analysis of requests for registration of intellectual property rights in the country. Brazil.
“INPI operates at a lag in terms of its staff, currently 52% occupancy”, states the document.
The executive president of FarmaBrasil, Reginaldo Arcuri, says that it is necessary to speed up the analysis of patents.
“The development of a country is greater the more efficient its intellectual property agency is”, says Nelson Mussolini, president of Sindusfarma.
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