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Trends and Developments Contributed by: António Andrade, Manuel Durães Rocha and Ana Panão Abreu Advogados Abreu Advogados is a Big Four independent law firm with more than 30 years of experience in the Portuguese market. It partnered with FBL Advogados in 2007 and JLA Advogados in 2010 to meet client interests in the Angolan, Mozam- bican and Portuguese markets while benefiting from an international decision-making process when presenting innovative legal solutions to clients. The firm continuously attracts strategic opportunities for its clients in key areas such as
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finance, corporate and M&A, tax, litigation and competition. It invests in multidisciplinary teams that tackle increasingly complex transactions with cost-effective solutions and anticipates clients’ needs with a business-oriented vision. Both internationally and in Portugal, Abreu Ad- vogados is chosen to provide legal advice in international transactions across Portuguese- speaking countries, particularly Angola, Mo- zambique and Timor-Leste.
Authors
António Andrade has been a partner at Abreu Advogados since 2019, mainly working in all matters related to IP – particularly in court and arbitration litigation regarding
Manuel Durães Rocha is a partner at Abreu Advogados and co-heads the IP team, working primarily in the areas of intellectual and industrial property and in the health and
patents, trade marks, designs, copyright and trade secrets. He has also advised several companies on IP enforcement strategies and on defending the validity of those rights. António is a member of several national and international IP organisations, having been the president of the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA)’s design committee (2010–16). He is currently a member of ECTA’s patent committee, the UNION-IP Litigation Commission and the ICC Portugal Commission on Intellectual Property.
pharmaceuticals sector. Manuel is a qualified European patent attorney and European trade mark attorney before the EU Intellectual Property Office. He has more than 30 years’ experience in patent litigation and advises a range of Portuguese companies on life sciences matters, medical devices and luxury trade mark products – holding a unique track record in these matters in Portugal. Manuel, in association with an international law firm, represented the applicant in the first-ever case lodged at Lisbon’s Unified Patent Court.
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