NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY: A REFLECTION INSPIRED BY THE THOUGHTS OF PATRICIA LUÍZA KEGEL.

Abstract

The launching of the Brazilian National Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy in 2020 confirmed that the Government is aware of the system's weaknesses. Undoubtedly, it is also a way to (try to) assure potential and current investors that they can trust the Brazilian system. Nonetheless, although the group in charge of thinking about and making the Strategy did a respectable job, only an IP strategy is not enough. It does not (and cannot) provide the system automatically with the adjustments and support it needs to succeed. The present policy commentary on the Strategy aims to bring about those intersections, providing the facts and arguments that refer to the status quo and suggest the (possible) impacts of the Strategy's overall Brazilian IP system, in an analysis inspired by the thoughts of Patricia Luíza Kegel.