Otavio Beaklini, patent specialist at Licks Attorneys and former commissioner of the BRPTO, will speak about the changes in the patent system and the latest developments of the Brazilian Patent Office.The event is sponsored by Candido Mendes University and will cover several aspects of the Brazilian Patent Statute.Location: Rua da Assembleia, 10, 42 floor– Centro […]
We are pleased to announce that Nuno Pires de Carvalho, a worldwide known IP expert and practicing attorney, has joined Licks Attorneys as a Partner to boost our firm’s IP and Competition Policy practice.Before joining Licks Attorneys, Nuno Carvalho was the Director of the Intellectual Property and Competition Policy Division of the World Intellectual Property […]
CADE publishes an English version of its Guidelines on Competition Compliance ProgramsOn February 18, 2016, the Brazilian competition authority (Administrative Council for Economic Defense – “CADE”) released an English version of its Guidelines on Competition Compliance Programs (the “Guidelines”). The purposes of the document, which is non-binding and focuses on unilateral and collusive anticompetitive conducts, […]
Our partner Eduardo Hallak was recognized in the WTR 1000 – World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2016 – Brazil category as a leading Trademark professional. The publication is the only standalone research directory to focus exclusively on trademark practices and practitioners. The WTR 100 says that Mr. Hallak “flies the flag for Licks Attorneys, a firm […]
The BRPTO published today, January 5, 2016, the much awaited rule implementing the PPH Pilot Program, which might speed up the examination of Brazilian applications duly filed and regularly pending in Brazil after a corresponding application from the same family receives the notice of allowance from the USPTO.The USPTO – BRPTO PPH Pilot Program starts […]
