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Inventa is a leading Intellectual Property Law Firm, specialized in the protection and internationalization of trademarks, patents, industrial designs, copyright and domain names. With over 50 years of experience in Portugal, the European Union and all the African jurisdictions, Inventa has served thousands of clients holding large trademark and patent portfolios, and other entities dealing with R&D daily. Furthermore, our experience allows us to understand the caveats of the different industries since we maintain relationships with clients from different sectors, including food and beverages companies, communications, IT, pharmaceuticals, manufacturers, oil & gas companies, financial institutions, business services companies and more.

Our headquarters are based in Lisbon, Portugal, and we also have offices in Angola, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, East Timor and Macao. Inventa also holds a large network of representatives all across the African region, including representation before the ARIPO and OAPI regional organizations, committed to delivering global coverage with local experience.

Due to our wide network of contacts and associate level, we offer our clients a highly specialized team of professionals in the Intellectual Property field and related strategic sectors. Our professionals guarantee personalized and efficient accompaniment in all our services.

PATENTREE was founded in 2013 with the mission of providing specialized Intellectual Property (IP) services, with a strong focus on patents. Our partners and associates bring over 20 years of professional experience across all areas of IP, ensuring clients benefit from both technical depth and strategic insight.

We are recognized for our excellence in drafting, prosecuting, and enforcing patents in Europe, the United States, and other jurisdictions worldwide. Whether entrusted with patent drafting, prior art searches, oppositions, freedom-to-operate analyses, or validations, our work is always subject to rigorous quality checks to guarantee the highest professional standards.

PATENTREE stands out in Portugal as a pioneering firm, currently the practice with the largest team of qualified European Patent Attorneys. We specialize in electromechanical and chemical technologies, combining industry knowledge with strong strategic capabilities.

Our approach is client-centered. We are known for being responsive, for communicating effectively with scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors, and for our high success rates in prosecution, opposition, and appeal cases. By working closely with our clients, we ensure their IP strategies are tailored to both protect and leverage their innovations.

Our team is diverse and multidisciplinary, including molecular biologists, bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and electrotechnical engineers. Many of our professionals are former scientists, IP examiners, or consultants, giving us a unique ability to bridge law, technology, and business. We also contribute actively to IP education, providing training in Portugal and abroad, including tutoring roles at the University of Strasbourg and the Institute of Professional Representatives before the EPO.

In addition, we offer extensive expertise in patent searching, supported by world-class databases and tools, delivering precise and actionable reports on patentability, freedom-to-operate, and infringement. With certified European patent litigators on our team, we also provide strong support before patent and arbitration courts.

At PATENTREE, we combine legal excellence, technical expertise, and strategic vision to ensure that our clients’ intellectual assets are fully protected and maximized.

In a ever-changing market with innovative and disruptive technologies, Intellectual Property is increasingly occupying a prominent place. Being informed and knowing how to defend trade secrets is vital for companies to maintain their competitive advantage.

Changes to the organization of companies, the evolution of digitalization and remote working, on an unprecedented scale, are driving a series of technologies that have significantly changed the existing paradigms, where much of the value generated is based on intangible assets. A well-designed intellectual property strategy prevents third parties from exploiting your ideas and is a significant barrier to market access.

Whatever your opportunities or challenges may be, our dedicated team understands your business needs and works to strategically define tailored solutions.

We can help you shape your strategy, manage risks and make the most of business opportunities in these areas:

• Data Protection
• Patents
• Advertising
• Labeling
• Consumer Rights
• Trademarks
• Logos
• Internet
• Software
• Other rights covered, lato sensu, by the Intellectual Property expertise

We have an in-depth knowledge of how intelectual property law applies in practice across different markets and with cross-disciplinary teams, we work to provide advice close to our clients’ needs.

With 70 years’ experience, we are a consultancy firm specialising in intellectual property (industrial property and copyright).

We started our activity in 1949 as a family company. Today we enjoy a solid reputation at both national and international level, always striving to build up a close relationship with our clients and delivering specialist legal advice, based on the principles of quality, excellence and attention to detail.

In our capacity as Official Industrial Property Agents and specialist consultants, we have vast experience in the field of industrial property, which enables us to ensure that our clients’ needs and interests are always put first.

We believe that the protection of creations and inventions, innovative production processes that aim to revolutionise the market and achieve success, must be committed to in full and one of the primary concerns of the entrepreneur.

Network Memberships:

• ACPI (Portuguese Association of Intellectual Property Consultants); 
• AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association); 
• AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property); 
• AMEP (Portuguese Association of European Patent Attorneys); 
• APRAM (Association of Practitioners in Trademark and Design Law); 
• BMM (Benelux Association of Trademark and Design Law); 
• CIPA (The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys); 
• CITMA (The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys); 
• ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark Association); 
• EPI (Institute of Professional Representativesbefore the European Patent Office); 
• FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys); 
• GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property); 
• ICC Portugal (International Chamber of Commerce); 
• INTA (International Trademark Association); 
• LESI (Licensing Executives Society International, Inc.); 
• MARQUES (The Association of European Trade Mark Owners);
• PTMG (Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group); 
• UNION-IP (Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property)

Last updated 9th October 2019

RCF – Protecting Innovation, S.A. is a leading IP Consulting & Services firm in Portugal. With more than 90 years of activity and over 40 employees, RCF PI is one of the largest, oldest and most prestigious IP firms operating in Portugal, with a strong international component and presenting itself as a reference partner for IP matters in Portugal, the European Union and Portuguese speaking in Africa and Asia.

Network Memberships: INTA, ECTA, AIPPI, GRUR, ACPI, EPI, FICPI, PTMG, UNION, MARQUES, VPP

ClarkeModet, established in 1879, is the biggest international Intellectual Property group in Latin America and an entry point to Europe. With an operational presence in 17 countries, it manages one in every ten patent applications in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets.

Their trajectory spans a century and a half of life-supporting history’s great inventors. With over 140 years of supporting innovators worldwide, and more than 58 years of presence in Brazil. ClarkeModet offers full-service IP legal, technical and consultancy experience across all industry sectors. And are pioneers in creating and implementing new IP services, mostly supported by technology and IP business consultancy experts. They maintain this innovative vision to keep up with global trends.

ClarkeModet manages the most important Intellectual Property portfolios among the main innovation-generating industries worldwide, being a valued partner to maximize their innovation.

Global network

ClarkeModet operates in over 195 countries thanks to its networks of agents.
They are pioneer in international expansion and has a presence in 17 countries, operating with a global team with a local soul.

• In Latin America, with its own companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
• In Europe, Spain, Portugal and we own an EPO office in Munich (Germany), which has assigned a network of 7 European patent agents (EQEs - European Qualifying Examination) acting for ClarkeModet.
• In the United States, new sales offices have been opened in New York (USA) and Miami (USA)
• In Asia, it has a presence with sales offices in China, and Seoul (South Korea).

ClarkeModet solutions

ClarkeModet provides specialized IP services, based on its experience, technical experts, technology, and business consultancy. Their solutions are based in:

• Advice and protect your company’s intellectual property
• Register patents, trademarks, designs, domains, and copyright around the world
• Defend Intellectual Property rights before national and international government agencies
• Shield your organization’s know-how using trade secrets and blockchain
• Monetize your intangible assets for an efficient management and maximize its benefits
• Explore the new possibilities that the digital world offers
• Innovate through technology and solutions to adapt to innovative global trends

A.G. da Cunha Ferreira, Lda. is one of the oldest firms operating in Europe in the Intellectual Property field, with 140 years of experience.

We develop together with our clients Intellectual Property strategies, always aiming at obtaining the most appropriate and best protections, maximizing their investments and boosting the return on investment.

We assist a wide range of companies, as well as individuals, Portuguese or foreign ones, with their Intellectual Property rights: patents, utility models, designs or models, trademarks, inter alia, not only in Portugal but also in the rest of the world

We are a reference office in Portugal in Industrial Property. We are a one stop firm for IP matters in Portugal, with more of 90 years of experience. We have a multidisciplinary team of specialists that meet all the needs of our clients, including several Official Industrial Property Agents (A.O.P.I.), qualified to act before the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

From patents to trademarks, from designs to SPCs. We have practioners specialized both in prossecution and litigation.

Over the years, we have always been following the developments in the IP sector, being essential a presence and active participation with the associations and institutions that represent the main sectors of our activity.

In this sense, we are members of several prestigious associations and national and international institutions fundamental to our activity.

Simões, Garcia, Corte-Real & Associados is a boutique IP firm providing a full range of services in all matters of Industrial and Intellectual Property.

The firm is based in Portugal, in Lisbon and has a second office in Porto.

Our trademark working group has an experienced and profound know-how in conducting searches and advising on registrability, filing and prosecuting national, international or European trademark applications, maintaining registrations and helping in the management of the client’s portfolio and contractual issues, providing watch services, as well as representing and assisting clients in trademark enforcement and litigation matters, and anti-counterfeiting measures.

The firm has also a patent department with patent attorneys and engineers which represents and provides services to clients primarily before the Portuguese Patent Office, the European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Organization. We have the experience and expertise to assist in any patent or designs issue, including patent drafting, patent prosecution and patent litigation

The firm provides trademark services for Portugal, the European Union and World Intellectual Property Organization and also the Portuguese speaking territories of Macao, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and S. Tome e Principe.

SGCR practice is supported on the solid legal and technical background of the working group. All partners of the firm are trademark attorneys with more than 30 years of experience in the IP field. The lawyers in the legal team are specialized in the IP field. Responsiveness, availability and flexibility are characteristic of the working group at SGCR as well as high standards of professional competence and ethics.

In response to the growing demand for specialized legal services in Intellectual Property, NLP has emerged as a key player, offering tailored strategies to help companies manage their invaluable asset amid the challenges posed by technological advancements. The firm was founded by Sara Nazaré, Beatriz Lima, and Joana Piriquito Santos, who bring around 15 years of experience in legal advisory services in Intellectual Property. With their extensive background in legal advisory services, NLP aims to deliver innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of the Portuguese market.

According to Sara Nazaré, “Intellectual property is a valuable asset for companies, regardless of their size or sector, and requires tailored management strategies to address critical needs.” Joana Piriquito Santos emphasizes: “We want to be recognized as the preferred law firm for clients when it comes to intellectual property in Portugal.” She added: “Despite the existing offer in this area, we wanted to build a project of our own, offering a highly specialized, more personalized service with a 360-degree approach to IP.”

With nearly 15 years of experience, including managing complex IP disputes in the pharmaceutical sector, the team at NLP is well-equipped to anticipate trends, define effective strategies, and provide tailored solutions to clients' specific needs. The firm's modern and bold image reflects its dynamic and innovative approach, underscoring its commitment to delivering added value to both clients and society. Under the slogan “IP 360º,” NLP aims to comprehensively address all dimensions of intellectual property. To this end, Beatriz Lima explains: "We believe we are capable of anticipating trends, defining and implementing effective strategies and solutions geared towards the specific objectives of each of our clients.