Our Approach
Our focus at all times is to offer you the highest standards of service with the best possible return-on-investment.
We can help you to really understand and identify your IP assets so that your work is protected and can be turned into profit. Working with all types of clients, from multinationals to SME’s and start-ups, we provide bespoke services at all stages of the IP lifecycle.
Portfolio & Risk Management
We are your IP partners in Brazil. Our aim is to help you structure and manage an effective protection of IP assets aligned with your business strategy and maximize the value of your assets.
At the outset, we can work with you to structure a portfolio of R&D projects and technologies in line with the objective to have an efficient IP protection. We help you identify your IP and develop protection strategies.
Thereafter, we assist you with the assessment of enforcement opportunities and infringement risks. We have the necessary resources to carry out prior art searches, draft applications, conduct IP landscapes, FTO analyses and monitor competitor cases.
Filing & Prosecution
IP filing and prosecution in Brazil does not need to be complicated. We help you throughout this process, making sure you avoid the pitfalls of the BRPTO and make the most of its rules to obtain stronger and faster protection.
We help you by reviewing your applications and documents to ensure they are in line with the Brazilian practice and to carefully prepare and prosecute these, ensuring maximum protection of your IP assets.
Post-Grant Proceedings
In Brazil, the validity of a granted patent or a trademark and industrial design registration may be challenged either before the BRPTO or in the federal courts.
Our prosecution experience extends to such post-grant review. We help you throughout the administrative review procedures before the BRPTO and provide technical assistance in invalidity lawsuits before the federal courts.
Monetization & Transactions
We assist you in realizing the full value of your IP portfolio by leveraging your assets to generate revenue through licensing and other transactions.
In addition, we help you to negotiate and draft commercial agreements and to comply with local legislation and requirements at the BRPTO.
We have the necessary resources to carry out IP valuations, to identify third parties interested in the transfer of technology/licensing, as well as to draft and negotiate the corresponding contracts.
Furthermore, we assist you in corporate transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, by conducting a thorough and efficient due diligence of your IP portfolio.
Tax Incentives / R&D Funding
Through our exclusive partnership with ABGI Brazil, a consulting company specialized in managing financial resources and processes to foster Innovation, we provide you with a broader scope of solutions to increase the effectiveness of R&D investments.
ABGI Brazil is part of ABGI Group, an international consulting company with presence in 13 countries and offices in Canada, USA, Brazil, UK and France. With 12+ years of presence in Brazil, ABGI Brazil has already worked in more than 44.000 innovation projects for more than 172 companies.
In addition to assistance with our IP solutions, we count on ABGI’s support and expertise related to funding, grant and management of tax incentives for innovation, fundraising, management of innovation projects and structuring R&D centres aiming to optimize R&D activities.
Expert Litigation Support
We have strong relationships with specialist IP law firms. If litigation is required, we can brief and manage the right specialist law firm for you, based on your personal preferences and budget. This avoids the time, effort and quality pitfalls of going to the market blind. Alternatively, we can recommend the right law firm for you to approach.
We have extensive experience conducting infringement and validity analysis, as well as acting as technical experts in some of the most important patent infringement and validity cases in Brazil. This includes the first lawsuits related to software implemented inventions and to standard essential technology.
IP Management Consulting
Since a thorough IP process is needed for any successful innovation project, we have successfully and continuously conducted IP Management Consulting projects for domestic companies willing to implement organizational and effective operating model to unlock their IP value potential.
In this regard, we have developed extensive experience on consulting projects aiming at identifying our client’s IP needs, recommending protection strategies, and integrating the important aspects of IP into the product development process.
