RESUMO-Este artigo tem por objetivo mapear, através da análise dos pedidos de patentes depositados no banco de dados do Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial-INPI, as tecnologias associadas ao setor da construção civil brasileira que proporcionam redução da emissão de resíduos no meio ambiente e sua correta destinação, assim como os processos e métodos de reciclagem para o reaproveitamento de materiais, a fim de se obter um consumo eficiente e redução dos impactos ao meio ambiente. A escolha do tema justifica-se pelo fato de essa indústria ser uma das que mais gera resíduos sólidos, provocando acúmulo de resíduos nos grandes centros urbanos e danos ambientais. Os procedimentos metodológicos contemplaram elementos exploratórios e descritivos, com a utilização de revisão bibliográfica e análise documental de patentes. Foram identificados 182 depósitos de patentes no banco de dados da base pesquisada, sendo 168 patentes de invenção e 14 modelos de utilidade. O estudo aponta que as inovações tecnológicas desenvolvidas com o objetivo de equacionar os problemas dos resíduos sólidos na construção civil ainda são incipientes e concentram-se nas regiões Sul e Sudeste do país. A inovação no setor necessita abranger os seus mais diversos agentes de sua cadeia de produção e logística.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been prominent in the world economy, contributing significantly to the generation of jobs. Despite the relevance in the economy, SMEs underutilize the mechanisms of protection and appropriation of intellectual property. In order to gather and synthesize strategies, managerial models and good practices related to the intellectual property management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this article aims to analyze systematically the literature, as well as to identify important aspects and gaps in existing empirical knowledge. For this, 53 articles from periodicals indexed in the scientific bases Web of Science, Scopus and Science Direct were analyzed. It was verified that there is a pattern of management actions in the scope of SMEs with regard to the protection, appropriation and intellectual property management.

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The advancement of information and communication technology means that physical presence in the office is no longer so necessary. Territoriality is no longer a requirement, and this changes labor relations and company management. Telework has grown in Brazil, however there are still many challenges for it to become a reality throughout the national territory. The objective of this work is to identify the perception of employees about telework, as well as to disseminate and stimulate the interest of companies in this new work modality, taking it away from informality and offering a new strategic perspective for organizations. As for the methodology, an applied, descriptive and qualitative research was carried out, through the case study method in a management systems development company based in Teresina-PI. The results show that the employees of the analyzed company are receptive to the implementation of telework.

In Brazil, the general rule is that the invention patent has a duration of 20 years and that of a utility model, 15 years, counted from the filing date of the patent application. However, if the examination of a patent of invention or utility model is not completed within 10 or 8 years, respectively, the sole paragraph of art. 40 of Law nº 9,279/96 - Industrial Property Law (LPI) determines a differentiated methodology for the calculation of the validity of the right. The standard in question provides that, in this case, the patent will be valid for at least ten years in the case of IP and seven years in the case of MU, counting from the date of the granting of patent (and not the file). The present paper deals with the problematic involved in the extension of the term of validity of patent in the hypothesis of administrative slowness of Brazilian Office (INPI) in the appraisal of the application. As the vast majority of patents are granted using the benefit provided in the sole paragraph of art. 40 of the LPI, it will be analyzed the social cost of the automatic extension of the term of validity of the patent in the post-patent segment (pharmaceuticals and agricultural pesticides). It was found that the accumulated loss of the public coffers only taking into account nine medicines purchased by public health system (SUS) in regular centralized purchases up to January 2016 was over R$ 2 billion. As for agricultural pesticides, there was an annual cost of approximately R$ 318 million for the group of eight patents that were extended with the application of the legal safeguard.