INTERACTIVE MANUAL FOR PRE-FILTERING INFORMATION NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE BRAND FEASIBILITY SURVEY AT INPI
Anteriority Research; Trademark Registration; Interactive Manual.
There is no doubt about the importance of registering trademarks in sectors of industry, services and commerce. Between 2014 and 2019, submission of trademark registration requests increased 56.13% at Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI). On the other hand, the same period indicated a growth of 216.6% of rejection on these requests at the referred institute. In order to reduce the denials percentage, it is essential that a detailed anteriority research be made by anyone interested in starting a trademark registration request, to avoid a collision between the desired trademark and other existing trademarks. Besides, the depositor must have a wide knowledge regarding Articles 124, 125 and 126 of Law Nº 9279, May 14, 1996 - Industrial Property Law (LPI) - whose non-compliance may be the main cause of rejections in the registration requests. For this reason, this work proposes the creation of an interactive manual, that will guide the user, pre-filtering the necessary information for the non-repudiation against the cited articles demands, making possible, then, a more assertive anteriority search, increasing the chances of registration request approval.