Much has happened during the last decades regarding the Brazilian intellectual property battlefield, both in the National Congress and in the Courts of Justice. Important governmental policies and precedents have come into play, both to reinforce and to challenge intellectual property rights.
Aiming to provide an overview, a score was given for each intellectual property milestone since 1996, generating the following chart.
The above chart represents the unfolding of intellectual property and is constantly being updated, considering that solutions for the protection of new assets are proposed organically, as the need of regulating new technologies and creations emerge.