"In the past year, BRICS countries have achieved remarkable progress in the IP field under the leadership and support of SIPO as our secretariat and presidency office," said Luiz Otávio Pimentel, president of the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil (INPI), who came to China to participate the 10th Meeting of BRICS Heads of Intellectual Property Offices in Chengdu, China.
In the view of Lewis Otávio Pimentel, both Brazil and China are in the process of reform and opening-up, enabling them to have a lot in common in the IP field." As intangible assets are of great importance for them to boost competitiveness in the world, industrial enterprises should have stronger awareness of IP protection, especially patent protection. Through IP protection policies, regulators can help industrial enterprises secure their competitiveness from being copied by others, keeping its leadership in the international arena.

Source: SIPO