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The visual appearance of your product — its shape, ornamental pattern, and overall configuration — is a genuine business asset in Brazil's large and competitive consumer market. From an initial search through filing, examination, and renewal, Brealant guides you through every stage of securing industrial design protection with INPI, Brazil's National Institute of Industrial Property, under the Industrial Property Law (Law No. 9,279/96).
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What an Industrial Design Is in Brazil: Under the Industrial Property Law (Law No. 9,279/96), a desenho industrial protects the ornamental plastic form of an object, or the ornamental arrangement of lines and colours applied to it — the visual appearance, rather than the underlying function, of a product.
Why Registration Matters in Brazil: A registrable design must be new and original, assessed against disclosures made anywhere in the world before filing. Because INPI's standard registration process involves only a formal check rather than full substantive review upfront, filing correctly and promptly is what secures your dated claim to the design.
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From a clearance search through filing, formal examination, optional substantive examination, and renewal, each stage of the Brazilian process has its own requirements — Brealant manages the entire journey.
Get Expert Help FastContact: Reach out to Brealant to discuss your product and its distinctive features.
Search: Request a search of the INPI Designs Register and other public sources to confirm your design is genuinely new and original.
File: Brealant prepares compliant representations and files your application with INPI, under the Locarno Classification for your product.
Wait: INPI carries out a formal examination of the application; substantive examination of novelty and originality only follows if separately requested or if the design is later challenged.
Check your design is new before you file in Brazil. Brealant searches INPI Brazil and international design records and gives clear risk advice.
Register your industrial design in Brazil with Brealant. Drawings, INPI Brazil filing and prosecution handled end to end at fixed fees.
Get through industrial design examination in Brazil with confidence. Brealant tracks INPI Brazil examination and answers objections through to grant.
Got an INPI Brazil office action? Brealant drafts persuasive responses to objections and refusals so your industrial design in Brazil keeps moving.
File or defend a design opposition in Brazil. Brealant prepares strategic INPI Brazil opposition filings, evidence and arguments to protect you.
Renew your industrial design in Brazil on time. Brealant tracks INPI Brazil deadlines, grace periods and fees so your protection never lapses.
Transfer industrial design ownership in Brazil smoothly. Brealant drafts assignment deeds and records the change with INPI Brazil quickly and correctly.
Stop industrial design infringement in Brazil fast. Brealant drafts firm, legally grounded cease and desist letters and manages the response.
Remove infringing listings in Brazil quickly. Brealant files industrial design takedown notices with online marketplaces, platforms and websites.
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Limitations — What Cannot Be Registered as a Design in Brazil:
Formalities Check
Certification (if needed)
Filing for Registration
Priority Claim (if any)
1-2 months
3-6 months
2-6 months
Within 6 months
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The three-dimensional ornamental form and configuration of the product.
How decorative lines, colours, and patterns are arranged on the surface of the product.
Several variations of the same basic design concept can often be filed in a single application where they share the same preponderant destination or theme.
A coordinated set of objects sharing a common distinctive visual configuration, where filed as a single design.
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renewals as permitted by the jurisdiction.
It protects the ornamental plastic form of an object, or the ornamental arrangement of lines and colours applied to its surface — the visual appearance of a product, as opposed to its underlying function.
An initial 10-year term from the filing date, renewable for three further 5-year periods, for a maximum total term of 25 years.
Not automatically — registration generally follows only a formal examination of the representations filed, with full substantive review of novelty and originality available on request, or triggered if the design is later challenged.
Yes, Brazil allows multiple embodiments of the same basic design to be filed together where they share the same preponderant destination or theme, which can reduce overall filing costs.
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