Congressman wants to raise the status of the National Institute of Industrial Property, an agency that is linked to the MDIC
The deputy (PP-RJ) wants to raise the (National Institute of Industrial Property) to the status of agency. In the congressman’s view, the body responsible for the protection and regulation of intellectual property rights in Brazil must achieve a higher level of financial autonomy to better perform its attributions.
“We need INPI to become an agency. INPI needs to become an agency because Brazil needs to stimulate development, patent creation, innovations, and the framework from which INPI works is not enough for the best protection system for innovation and inventiveness in the country. ”said the deputy.
The INPI has as its regular function the concession and registration of brands, patents, industrial designs and geographical indications, ensuring that companies and entrepreneurs can legally protect their creations and commercial identities. Today, it is linked to the MDIC (Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services).
The proposal to transform the institute into a federal agency is old. In the first half of 2023, the (National Confederation of Industry) a letter to the vice president and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce Services (PSB), asking the Planalto to present a bill to raise the status of INPI and strengthen your budget. An agency is still linked to the government, but has autonomy to make its decisions and manage its budget.
The transformation of INPI into a federal agency is part of a parliamentary front agenda by competitive Brazil that includes other federal agencies. Like the Poder360the group led by Lopes works in a bill to strengthen the budget of regulatory agencies. The proposal that is still under construction is to link the budget of the entities to their revenue.
Currently, the agencies earn about R $ 50 billion to the Union coffers, while the government allocates to the cash of the entities about 10% of this amount – R $ 5 billion. In 2024, Lopes stated that the actual amount available to the agencies was even smaller, as the Planalto still cut 20% of this total.
