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Licence, assignment and know-how agreements recorded at INPI, so the transaction is effective against third parties.

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What you need to know

When a company licenses a trademark or patent, assigns rights or transfers technical knowledge to another, the agreement can be taken to INPI. Recordal is what makes the transaction enforceable against third parties and, when payments are sent abroad, it is a condition for paying royalties and for the tax treatment of the agreement.

The work starts before INPI: checking that ownership is in order, that the subject of the agreement is actually protected and that the clauses on term, territory, exclusivity and remuneration describe what the parties agreed. Franchising also belongs here — Law 13,966/2019 requires a registered trademark or a filed application in order to franchise.

What Regicenter does
Check of ownership and status of the assets at INPI
Review of clauses on subject, term, territory and remuneration
Filing of the recordal or registration request
Follow-up of requirements until the certificate

How it works

Step 1 of 4
Due diligence

Check of the ownership and validity of the assets involved in the agreement.

Step 2 of 4
Contract adjustment

Review of the clauses INPI examines and of what the parties actually negotiated.

Step 3 of 4
Recordal

Request filed at INPI with the parties’ documentation.

Step 4 of 4
Certificate

Once the recordal is complete, the transaction is effective against third parties.

Process handled by the unit in your region. Deadlines and fees follow INPI’s official publications.

Other services

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Other IP rights Patents Registration of inventions and utility models at INPI, to stop third parties from making, selling or importing your solution. Other IP rights Software Computer program registration at INPI: proof of authorship and date for the code behind your product. Other IP rights Copyright Registration of creative works — texts, illustrations, music, projects, audiovisual — to prove authorship and date. Other IP rights Industrial design Protection of the product’s shape: the external configuration, the ornamental set of lines and colours that sets your object apart. Other IP rights Geographical indication INPI recognition that a product or service comes from a specific place — and only those from there may use the name. Trademarks Prior search Before you spend on the application, the unit compares your name with what already exists in the INPI database and tells you where the risk is.

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The search tells you right away whether the name is available. The unit in your region explains the rest by phone or WhatsApp.

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