Mirantã is the name given to the Ptychopetalum plant species, belonging to the Concomitantly, data about the traditional use of Olacaceae family, a tree native to the tropical the plant were coded from ethnographic reports forests of the Amazon Basin, especially in Brazil and other academic articles which describe the and French Guyana (Pinto, 2012). [...] Finally, the conclusion argues that the final results showed correspondence with the use of Mirantã is also sold in local markets, especially in traditional knowledge in some of the patents the interior of the state of Pará and in the analyzed. [...] describe and comply with the patentability criteria In fact, the main advantage of the treaty, from of being (i) new vis-à-vis the state of the art, (ii) the perspective of applicants, is that it have inventive step (or non-obviousness) to a facilitates the filing of a patent application in skilled person in this specific art (Spence 2007), several countries at the same time and to later and (iii). [...] The keyword Ptychopetalum, which consists of the name of the genus referring to the plant resource of Mirantã, was inserted for the purposes of this research. [...] The traditional use of Mirantã and The first patent (HANAWA, KITAJIMA and patent rights: evidence of TSUNODA, 1999), presented in Table 1, has as its misappropriation major purpose the use of mirantã “to relief physical and mental fatigue, without any side The core of this research is the comparison effects, even if administered for a long period” – between the uses of mirantã by traditional the w.
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