Global Innovation Policy Center

March 15, 2017

Brazil


Primary Sources

  • AGREEMENT ON TRADE AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL (2011)
  • Decree 4.830, On Compulsory Licenses (2003)
  • Decree 6.041, Política de Desenvolvimento da Biotecnologia, (2007)
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  • Decree No 7713, Pharmaceutical preference margins, (2012)
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  • Draft Law 5402/2013, Opposition proceedings (2013)
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  • Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial, Diretoria de Patentes, Diretrizes de Exame de Patentes (2002)
  • Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial, Diretoria de Patentes, Diretrizes de Exame de Patentes (2002)
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  • Law 10.603, Protection of non-divulged information submitted for approval for the commercialisation of products and other provisions, (2002)
  • Law 12.349, Local preferences, (2010)
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  • Law 7.735, Biodiversity and biotechnology (2014)
  • Law 8,866, Procurement (1993, 2012)
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  • Law No. 10.406, Civil Code, (2010)
  • Law No. 10.753, National Book Policy, (2003)
  • Law No. 10.941, Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics (2016)
  • Law No. 10.973, Innovation and Research in Science and Technology, (2004, 2010)
  • Law No. 12.035/09, Olympic Act, (2009)
  • Law No. 12.663, General Law of the World Cup, (2012)
  • Law No. 12.965 Principles, Guarantees, Rights and Obligations for the Use of the Internet, (2014)
  • Law No. 13.123, Access and Benefits Sharing of Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, (2015)
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  • Law No. 5.648, National Institute of Industrial Property (1998)
  • Law No. 5.869, Code of Civil Procedure (2011)
  • Law No. 9.279, Industrial Property Law (2001)
  • Law No. 9.609, Law on Protection of Intellectual Property of Software, its Commercialization in the Country, and Other Provisions, (1998)
  • Law No. 9.610, Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights, (1998)
  • Law No. 9.615, General Rules on Sport and other Measures (1998)
  • Law No. 9610, Copyright and Neighboring Rights (1998)
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  • Ordinance 2.531, “Partnerships for Productive Development” (PDPs), (2014)
  • Regulation 55, ANVISA, automatic substitution, (2010)
  • Resolution CMED 2/04, Pharmaceutical pricing policy, (2004)

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