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20 May 2019AmericasKene Gallois and Samantha Salim

How to protect therapeutic methods in Brazil

Unlike US patent law, which does not exclude therapeutic methods from patent protection, Brazil’s patent system follows a similar rationale to Europe’s: that “methods of treatment” are not patentable.

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