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Karlo Tinoco

Karlo Tinoco
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Karlo Tinoco

Attorney At Law

karlo.tinoco@lickslegal.com

+55 11 3033 3751

Karlo Fonseca Tinoco is an Attorney at Law at Licks Attorneys’ São Paulo office since 2018. Karlo has a long experience working as an attorney and an advisor, both in Brazil and France. Prior to joining Licks, Karlo worked at a full-service law firm and at an IP boutique, representing national and international major companies. His practice comprises advising clients from a wide range of industries, focusing on patents, trademarks, trade secrets, unfair competition, technology transfer, IP prosecution and licensing matters. In addition, as an attorney, a researcher and a lecturer in France for over a decade, Karlo gained a broad experience in dealing with conflict of laws and jurisdictions issues.

Furthermore, Mr. Tinoco was one of the founding members of the Association Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle, and served as co-director of the Revue Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle. Karlo has published several papers in the field of intellectual property and is constantly invited as a speaker in seminars in Brazil and abroad.

Languages
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • French
Practice Areas
  • Counseling and Transactional
  • Industrial Design
  • Intellectual Property
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Patents
  • Trademarks
Representative Cases
  • Advised a multinational cosmetic products company in adapting and implementing its employees’ inventions legal strategy in Brazil;
  • Assisted a multinational home appliances company in a patent and design pre-contentious case;
  • Assisted an American cosmetic company in establishing a distribution network in Brazil;
  • Advised an American sports equipment company in protecting its intellectual property in Brazil;
  • Represented a multinational company before the Superior Court of Justice in order to obtain the enforcement of a foreign arbitration award in Brazil.
Professional Highlights
  • IP Stars- ‘IP Star’ Rising Star (2021);
  • Speaker at the 23rd European Intellectual Property Forum (2018), UNIFAB, Paris – France;
  • Speaker at the French-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo, on Employees’ Inventions law and practice (2017);
  • Speaker at the Colloque Propriété(s) et données (2016), Université Paris Descartes, Paris – France;
  • Speaker at the Annual Congress of the Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property (2016), São Paulo – Brazil;
  • Speaker at the 1er Colloque franco-colombien de l’Association Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle (2016), Bogotá and Medellín – Colombia;
  • Speaker at the 1er Colloque international franco-japonais (2015) – Osaka, Japan;
  • Speaker at the International Conference on Protection of geographical indications and appellation of origin : challenge and perspective, Tunghai University, Taiwan;
  • Lecturer at the LLM Ingénierie Juridique de l’Entreprise et Développement Durable – University of Haute Alsace – France (2014-2016);
  • Lecturer in International Private Law at the University of Lorraine – France (2014-2016);
  • Lecturer in International Private Law and Law of New Technologies at the University of Strasbourg – France (2013-2016).
Affiliations
  • Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul;
  • Former member of the Strasbourg (France) Bar Association (2011-2017)
  • Member of the Emerging Issues Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA);
  • Member of the board of the Association Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle (2015-2017);
  • Member of the AIPPI;
  • Member of the Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles – APRAM;
  • Member and co-founder of the Association Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle – AFPI;
  • Former co-director of the Revue Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle
Education
  • PhD,  Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle – CEIPI, Université de Strasbourg, 2014;
  • LLM., Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle – CEIPI, Université de Strasbourg, 2007 ;
  • LL.B., Pontifical Catholic University – Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), 2006.
Publications
  • Droit de la Concurrence et Jouissance des Droits de Propriété Industrielle en Droit Français et Européen, in Apontamentos sobre sinais distintivos: o Direito de marca, nome de empresa e iG na nova economia, João Marcelo de Lima Assafim (org.), Ed. Lumen Juris, 2017, pp. 57-75.;
  • Le régime des inventions de salariés en droit brésilien, LexisNexis, Revue Propriété industrielle, n° 1-2017, étude n° 3 ;
  • Clearing the thicket of employee rights, World Intellectual Property Review, November-December 2016, pp. 60-61;
  • L’ouverture des données de l’INPI, LEGICOM n° 56, 2016/1, pp. 77-85, avec Pauline Darnand ;
  • Nullité partielle de la marque Gradiente iPhone au Brésil : la victoire d’Apple sur le droit des marques, LexisNexis, Revue Propriété industrielle, n° 2-2014, étude n° 5, avec Yann Basire ;
  • La Licence obligatoire de brevet en droit français et brésilien in Les Frontières entre liberté et interventionnisme en droit français et brésilien, M. Stork, G. Vieira da Costa Cerqueira, Thales Moraes da Costa (org.) Harmattan, 2010.
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