rafaela mattos

Rafaela Frota Mattos

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Position at H&A:
Patent Advisor

Profession:
Lawyer

Qualifications:
Graduate in Law from Estácio de Sá University of Rio de Janeiro, with a post-graduation in Administrative Law from the Catholic Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC/RJ.

Professional Awards:
Featured in IAM Patent 1000 (2020-2022-2023-2024-2025).

Languages:
Spanish, English, Portuguese.

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

General Course in Intellectual Property (DL101PBR) – WIPO

Legal Portuguese Course - Brazil Bar Association/DF

Course in Drafting a Patent Application (DL-320P BR) - WIPO

-Advanced Patent Course (DL-301P BR) – WIPO

PUBLICATIONS

1st Ordinary Public Meeting in 2026 of the Board of Directors of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) in Brazil discusses the regulation of medicinal cannabis production

Record numbers of applications are the highlight in IP statistics for 2025 in Brazil

BRPTO Suspends Fast-Track Examination for H04 Patent Application

Proposals for Regulations on Alternative Set of Claims in Brazil

Brazil regulates reexamination after patent rejection is overturned on appeal

Brazil opens again PPH application slots for Q3 2025 under INPI Ordinance 03/2025

Brazil’s Senate approves accession to the Budapest Treaty, enabling global recognition of microorganism patents

Phase V of the PPH Pilot Project will come into effect on 01/01/2025

Transforming Procedures: BPTO’s Strategic Shift and Legal Insights (Co-author with Daniela Lin and Sabrina Conde)

Protection and Regulation of E-Games in Brazil

Positive news for Technology Contracts in Brazil

PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) Phase IV established under the BRPTO

Patents term adjustment undergoes a new hope

The importance of intellectual property and data protection

Approved Brazilian Law 14,200 of 2021 which authorizes temporary breach of patents on vaccines and medicine

Previous consent of the National Health Surveillance Agency – Anvisa for granting of patents revoked

COVID-19 and the Compulsory Patent License

PPH reaches in Brazil the annual limit of 400 applications

Fast-track examination to technologies related to Covid-19 in Brazil.(Co-author with Amanda Quintella)

EXPERIENCE

Rafaela Mattos joined H&A in 2016 as a lawyer.

Previously, she has worked as a lawyer in Administrative and Regulatory Law in well-known Brazilian law firms, with legal consultancy, prosecution and defense of legal actions of administrative and regulatory content, including the Industrial Property Law, patent investigation and procedural analysis of applications.

As an IP lawyer, she has expertise in activities related to patents administrative prosecution, with the analysis, preparation and response of technical examination requests at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office, adapting the set of claims in accordance with the requirements of Brazilian practice and analysis of prohibited matters as determined by the Brazilian IP Law.

She also carries out prior consultations and clarifications of IP, as well as analysis of the possibilities of requests for accelerated procedures and divisional applications and requested amendments.

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