Intellectual Property and Competition Law encompasses the rules and regulations that protect creation and innovation rights, as well as regulate competition relationships between companies.
It covers various areas, including: trademarks, designs, patents, trade secrets, unfair competition, and copyright.
These areas aim to protect the rights of intellectual property holders over their creations, ensuring them exclusivity and control over the use and exploitation of their works.
In addition, the legislation in this area aims to regulate market competition practices, combating unfair competition, abuse of economic power, and other anti-competitive behaviors that may harm free competition.
Areas of Practice
Our team is committed to providing strategic and effective legal solutions to protect your intellectual property rights and ensure fair competition in the market.
We are a reference in various sectors of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, including:
Intellectual property registration and protection: We assist in protecting your intellectual property, including trademark, design, and patent registration, carrying out the necessary registrations with the competent authorities and providing advice to ensure the exclusivity and legal security of your creations.
Enforcement and defense of rights: We act in defense of your intellectual property rights, including combating unauthorized copying and the infringement of trademarks, designs, patents, and copyrights, both in administrative and judicial contexts.
Competition consulting:We provide legal consulting to businesses whenever there are competition-related issues, guiding them on commercial practices that must comply with competition laws and avoiding behaviors that may be considered unfair competition or abuse of a dominant market position.
Commercial disputes and litigation:We represent our clients in situations of disputes related to intellectual property and competition, including lawsuits for trademark and design infringement, patents, unfair competition, and copyright violations.
In all our areas of practice, we seek effective and favorable solutions for our clients.
Our specialists
Our team is composed of Dr. Cristina Simões, Dr. João Figueiredo, and Dr. Fábio Queirós, all highly qualified to assist clients in the defense, whether extrajudicial or judicial, of their rights against any abusive uses.
The department's work is, whenever necessary, carried out in close collaboration with the lawyers in the Litigation Department, to ensure the protection of our clients' rights.
