UFPel is 23rd in the National Intellectual Property Ranking

UFPel is in the 2015 national ranking of intellectual property, as published in June by INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property). The university appears in 23rd place among the largest invention patent applicants in Brazil, ahead of institutions such as UFRJ, Samsung, Braskem, among others. It also appears in 21st place in the ranking of computer program records, ahead of institutions such as UFRGS, Bematech and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation itself, which appears in 48th place.