Ricardo Campello, Author at Kluwer Patent Blog

Brazilian government resurrects its Partnership for Productive Development (PDP) program. A new threat to pharma IP rights?

Roberto Rodrigues Pinho, Brenno Telles, Ricardo Campello (Licks Attorneys)/October 3, 2023October 5, 2023

Brazil’s president published, on September 27, Decree No. 11,715/2023 which institutes the “National Strategy for the Development of the Economic-Industrial Health Complex”. This decree aims at directing public and private investments towards the health and innovation sectors to reduce the Public Health System’s (SUS) vulnerability and increase access to medicines. It aims to do this…

Brazil, Legislation, Pharma

Skinny label in Brazil: drug authority seeking to implement new regulations

Roberto Rodrigues Pinho, Ricardo Campello (Licks Attorneys)/March 23, 2023March 23, 2023

The Brazilian healthcare legislation establishes in the legal definitions of generic drugs (article 3, items XX and XXI, Statute #6,360 of 1976[1]) that their labels must have all and the same therapeutic indications of the reference-listed drug. The law only allow differentiation in characteristics like product’s size and shape, shelf life, package, and excipients[2]. The…