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Brazil's 2025 Unified Fee Table Makes Automated Trademark Monitoring Essential

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In August 2025, Brazil's national intellectual property office INPI approved a new unified fee schedule under Portaria INPI/PR, lowering the cost of trademark registration. The reduced fees are expected to drive a significant increase in new trademark filings in 2026, making the monitoring landscape more competitive and complex. INPI publishes its Official Gazette (RPI) in XML and TXT formats alongside the traditional PDF, enabling automated pipelines to download, parse, and cross-reference trademark portfolios for relevant updates. Legal doctrine and Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) have established that effective trademark surveillance requires reviewing every issue of the gazette in full, not merely performing one-off searches. Law firms, intellectual property offices, and accountants managing trademarks are increasingly adopting automated watchers to track oppositions, notifications, dismissals, and approvals in real time.

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