Registration and Protection of Trademarks and Distinctive Signs

Our law firm leads trademark availability search, domain names, trade names and other distinctive signs in national and international database, aiming to assist the businessmen about the best strategies for the protection and risk reduction in the violation of third parties’ rights.

We are able to lead also the administrative proceedings at the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and other foreign/international agencies (by using foreign associates) for the protection of trademarks and industrial design, including oppositions, appeals and administrative nullity.

Among the consulting, we dispose also monitoring services for the trademarks, domain names and industrial design with the objective to hamper conflicting trademark filing and those of opponents so that these trademarks do not mature into registration before the INPI.

Registration, control and cancellation of domain names at the “Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto br” and its corresponding protection overseas also are rendered by our services to the clients.

We also monitor marks and trade names at the existing Board of Trade in Brazil, assist the exploitation of commercial establishment by means of support and elaboration of assignment, among others.

The monitor and legal practice in the trademark field also involve the trade dress of products, the regulation of trade dress of pharmaceuticals, following the requirements of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), and the comparative advertising, the practice of ambush marketing, among others.