Apply to register a trademark in Brazil
With the rise of entrepreneurship this question certainly comes more to the minds of entrepreneurs. Why should I apply to register a trademark in Brazil? After all, the name of your business is very important and is also responsible for its success in Brazil and in...
Import products from Brazil: written contracts
If you are going to import products from Brazil, please, do a written contract. As I am a lawyer in Brazil, I can tell for every international company (or person) only to buy any kind of products from Brazil to do always a written contract. It’s hard to believe...Parol Evidence Rule
Legal Information Institute – Cornell University Law School Definition: A rule that governs the extent to which parties to a case may introduce into court evidence of a prior or contemporaneous agreement in order to modify, explain, or supplement the contract at...CISG
“…Because international commerce is not simple, a single transaction often involves entities with contacts relating to more than two nations. Thus, for reasonable efficiency, a practical treaty would not be merely bilateral, but would be multilateral, and...Forum non conveniens
“Según ésta, un juez puede terminar un proceso, a pesar de tener atribuida competencia, si tambiém es competente para conocer del caso un tribunal extranjero y es claramente más razonable que el proceso se siga en el estranjero. Por ejemplo, en el asunto de la...CISG Brazil
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS VIENNA, 11 APRIL 1980 BRAZIL:ACCESSION The Secretary-General of the United Nations, acting in his capacity as depositary, communicates the following: The above action was effected on 4 March...
Boa-fé nas negociações internacionais
A boa-fé nas negociações internacionais é sempre necessária. O Brasil é conhecido internacionalmente pela diversidade de produtos importados e exportados. Nos últimos anos a crise internacional tem atrapalhado bastante e os números têm decepcionado. Inúmeros esforços...Leia maisJurisdiction…cannot be exercised by a State outside its territory except by virtue of a permissive rule derived from international custom or from a convention. It does not, however, follow that international law prohibits a State from exercising jurisdiction in its own territory, in respect of any case which relates to acts which have taken place abroad, and in which it cannot rely on some permissive rule of international law. Such a view would only be tenable if international law contained a general prohibition to States to extend the application of their law and the jurisdiction of their courts to persons, property and acts outside their territory, and if, as exception to this general prohibition, it allowed States to do so in certain specific cases. But this is certainly not the case under international law as it stands at present. Far from laying down a general prohibition to the effect that States may not extend the application of their laws and the jurisdiction of their courts to persons, property and acts outside their territory, it leaves them in this respect a wide measure of discretion which is only limited in certain cases by prohibitive rules.