The National Institute of Industrial Property (BPTO), in partnership with the Superintendence of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (Suframa) and the Federal Institute of Amazonas (IFAM), launched an unprecedented study on sustainable technologies. The material is part of the Green Technologies Observatory, an initiative created to gather and make available technological information based on industrial property data focused on the bioeconomy and environmental sustainability.

The Technological Radar presents a detailed overview of sustainable innovations that have obtained patent applications through the BPTO’s Green Patents priority processing program. Since its creation in 2012, this program has streamlined the evaluation of inventions focused on sustainability, boosting the innovation ecosystem in Brazil.

The research also provides a profile of the main players who use this tool to accelerate the protection of their technological solutions. In addition to the study, an interactive data panel is available on the Observatory’s website, providing access to detailed bibliographic information on the documents analyzed.

The radar allows identifying technologies that can be explored in the country without violating patent rights, as well as potential partners for licensing or joint development of technologies, keeping up to date with technological developments in different sectors, supporting R&D activities, predicting and identifying new products and/or emerging technologies on the market, supporting investment decisions and seeking technical solutions that exist in the state of the art.

With this initiative, the BPTO reinforces its commitment to fostering the granting of green patents, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge and the development of sustainable solutions in Brazil. The Technological Radar is another strategic step towards strengthening the bioeconomy and promoting a more sustainable future for the country.

It is important to remember that the BPTO has a fast-track program focused on green technologies that enables a significant reduction in the analysis time for granting patents in Brazil. Currently, a decision on an application takes an average of nine months, a much shorter period than the regular examination time, which is currently 4.5 years from the date of the examination request. In this way, the program is consolidating itself as a strategic tool to boost the bioeconomy and sustainable development, offering a more agile response to inventors interested in producing and commercializing their innovations in the Brazilian market.

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