Today Brazil is considered an international market. The continental proportions, the coastline on the Atlantic Ocean and the boundaries with all South American nations, except Chile and Ecuador, are important assets in agriculture, cattle-breeding, fishing, industries, commerce and services.

As a member of the Union Convention of Paris, Berne Convention on Copyrights, Trade-Related Aspect on Intellectual Property Rights, Mercosul Agreement, Brazil has been committed to adopt itself to achieve property rights that have been happening throughout the world.

The new Patent and Trade Mark Law, which is extremely broad, consist of the following protections:
“PATENTS” - inventive concepts or inventions; future developments and modifications of inventions; substances, material products obtained by chemical processes or procedures; substances, materials, mixtures or food products; chemical; pharmaceutical and medicinalproducts; utility models, additional invention certificate and registration of ”Industrial Designs” - either fo esthetic shape of objects or esthetic set of lines and colors.
trade, service, certification, collective and tridimensional. Special protection to well-known and highly renown trade marks.

“GEOGRAPHICAL NDICATIONS” - are concerned with “appellations of origins” and “indications of source”. Infrigements of patents, utility models, industrial designs, trade marks and geographical indications are considered CRIMES. Special protection is granted to COPYRIGHTS, SOFTWARES, FRANCHISING AGREEMENTS and BREEDERS.