Fully committed to your innovations

We pride ourselves on understanding our client technologies and on aligning IP strategy with business priorities, working well together. 

Our firm offers a full range of IP services, committed to provide comprehensive and innovative expertise, creating value to the benefit of our clients. See some of our services below.

Patent drafting in telecommunications and software-based inventions

Preparation and prosecution of biotech product and processes patent applications

Outlining and writing industrial chemistry or pharmaceutical patent documents

Protection of mechanical and electromechanical systems and products by patent routes

IP department outsourcing so that your best minds can concentrate on innovating

IP training for businesses and professional development courses or one-on-one tuition

Registering of trademarks and designs, advising for cost-effective results

Consulting on complex product protection and IP portfolio management and assertion

Assisting your strategy with freedom-to-operate analytics and risk-avoidance routes

Where can I start to learn more about protecting inventions in Portugal?

Right here, why not? There is information on:
- National route - General information about patents in Portugal
     - Applying for a national Portuguese patent or utility model
          - specific information on utility models
     - Post-grant procedures
     - Searching for patent documents and finding further information
- European route - Validating an European patent in Portugal
- International route - Entering Portugal in the national phase of a PCT application

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Official websites of general interest to industrial property

Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) 
inpi.justica.gov.pt
(English version available)

Institutionalised arbitration (Arbitrare)
www.arbitrare.pt 
(English version available) 

Misleading invoices - please beware!
www.wipo.int
www.euipo.eu
inpi.justica.gov.pt
(official warnings on fraudulent requests)

Join us!

We are expanding and we welcome job applications from professionals with scientific or technical training, a good 
working level of Portuguese and English, communication skills and sociable attitude, and continuous learning capacity. Knowledge of the patent system is a plus but not mandatory.

We offer the chance to join a firm with professional prestige and in constant expansion, the opportunity to work within a dynamic team, in an excellent work environment and continuous training - please contact [email protected].

Nice to know - Portugal is a founding member of the Paris Convention!

Portugal is a founding member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, which was one of the first  treaties on intellectual property. It established a Union for the protection of industrial property. It defines a priority right which enables a much easier internationalization of national rights and assures that foreign applicants are given equal treatment as nationals in each participating country of the Union.

The Convention is still in force as of today and has become one of the cornerstones of modern IP rights.