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The research and development of new products and processes demand investments, time and work. Protecting such industrial property assets, by means of a patent, means granting the inventor a deserved and lawful right to make use of his invention on a exclusive basis for a certain period of time, being, therefore, rewarded for any efforts made.
- Search for patents and opinions on the patentability of inventions
- Elaboration and patent application files in Brazil and abroad
- Control and maintenance of patents and patent applications
- Elaboration of subsides, remedies and administrative nullities
The trademark is the tool which allows the consumer to differentiate a product or a service from the other of a diverse source. In the light of a businessman or an employee who renders his services, the individualization of his product or service in the market is the first step to acknowledge its quality and faithfulness from the consumer.
- Research of coincidence between trademarks and opinions on their feasibility
- File of registry applications in Brazil and abroad
- Control, maintenance and monitoring of registries and registry applications, including from third parties
- Elaboration of oppositions, remedies and administrative nullities
The protection granted by the registry of an industrial design comprises new plastic shapes or ornamental ensembles of lines and colors applicable to a product. This protection stimulates investments in design, creativity, shape originality e makes this effort profitable and appealing to the industry.
- Research of previous events and opinions on registrability
- Elaboration and registry application files in Brazil and abroad
- Control, maintenance and monitoring of registries and registry applications, including from third parties
- Elaboration of remedies and administrative nullities
In most cases, the success of a certain venture is based on the information, method or technology whose secrecy is viewed by a businessman, either because it cannot be protected in any other way or the businessman has the option of not disclosing such information. At this moment, some tools can keep the secrecy or the information with the purpose to maintain its confidentiality, making this secrecy strategy safe and practicable.
- Advisement on a better way of protecting the confidential information and business secrets
- Elaboration of confidentiality agreements
- Investigation of any eventual inappropriate disclosure related to confidential information and advisement on ways of repression
The holder of an intellectual property asset is entitled to explore its rights, either directly or through agreements made with third parties, without restriction, making sure that such technology is made available in the market and, in most cases, contributing to the technical improvement of domestic licensed companies or assignees of its technology.
- Analysis and opinions on the license or assignment of trademarks, patents, know-how, copyrights and the like and other intellectual property rights
- Elaboration of contracts for transfer of technology, skilled technical services and franchise
- Registration of contracts at the INPI
The registry of computer programs at Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) is an important tool on which the inventor can count on with the purpose to prove its authorship and protect himself against any eventual violations from third parties.
- Registry of computer programs at the INPI
- Means of protection for computer programs against violations from third parties
The copyrights and the like protect the inventor or creator by acknowledging the same for the work authorship, the control over its variations and reproductions, the right to explore it, directly or indirectly, at his sole discretion.
- Registry of authorship at the competent Public Agencies
- Means of protection for authorship and correlated rights against violations from third parties
Due to the on-growing space internet has been achieving as a business tool, the protection of a businessman or professional in the world wide web, either for protecting his distinctive signs against any inappropriate use from third parties or expanding its business into the virtual environment, becomes an important and decisive tool. The domain name is the address and the main type of identification for the businessman in the wide web.
- Search for domain names
- Registry of domain names in Brazil and abroad
- Monitoring and maintenance of domain names
It is useless to get a title deed of any intellectual property rights if the holder has no access to efficient tools to validate the same, prohibiting the violation of these rights from third parties. The fight against the violation of rights of an intellectual property is an equally important stage to maintain the reputation and the profitability of a company or of its image and the outcomes from the author’s or creator’s work.
- Promotion of actions to fight against any violations to intellectual property rights, piracy, unfair competition, violation of benefits, abuse of economic power, either judicial or extrajudicial, in the civil or criminal field, as well as before Administrative Bodies, such as the Self-Regulation Advertising Council (CONAR) or the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE)
- Defense of clients in suits where the use or lawfulness of their intellectual property may have been doubted
- Advisement on any eventual violations and strategies to fight against the same involving the intellectual property and its correlated rights
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