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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, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, East Timor and Macau. 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.

Jacobacci & Partners has 95 professionals in 15 offices in 3 countries in Europe (Italy, Spain, and France), supported by 350 paralegals and administration staff. Our team of highly specialized professionals manage a portfolio of around 120,000 brands for clients of all types: we provide assistance in all areas of brand management, ranging from registration of a company logo to fighting against counterfeiting on a global scale. We work with the client to build a strategy that aims to correctly value, protect and defend their intellectual property rights. IP professionals in the firm’s trademark department have specialties in fashion and cosmetic industries, food, automotive, mechanical, pharmaceutical and agriculture sectors, to cite a few. Jacobacci & Partners manages over 100,000 patents across a wide variety of subject matter, from mechanics to electronics and software, from industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry to biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. We represent clients in the filing of patents at the national, European and international level and have been involved in complex patent litigation for over 150 years dating back to an infringement action concerning Edison’s light bulb. The Local Business Development Team is composed of a selected group of trademark and patent attorneys having principal business activity in the small and local regions of Italy, France and Spain, with a client portfolio mainly devoted to SMEs. The aim of the team is to collect and share best practices for assisting the SMEs in the local regions and to foster business development in those areas with the aim to share inside the entire Jacobacci group such best practices among the colleagues. The firm’s code of ethics is regularly updated, respecting and enhancing the concept of diversity through its diversity policy, which ensures all employees are treated equally with regard to diversity and inclusion. With a female CEO, and many women in central roles, we cannot fail to be a company projected towards inclusion and ever greater gender equality. Numerous corporate social initiatives have been set up in view of a company policy that harmonizes economic objectives with the social and environmental ones of the reference territory, with the aim of preserving the environmental, social and human heritage for present and future generations. These initiatives relate to the quality, reliability and safety of the product, but also to the safeguard of the environment and health and energy saving, according to a management approach that considers not only strong economic results, but also the wider impact that the company produces, through its work, on society and the environment. In order to improve working conditions and create a better place and working environment for everyone, the leadership of Jacobacci & Partners has launched the JforYou project starting in January 2023. This project represents an organic and continuous plan, comprising concrete initiatives, dedicated to all people working in our company, with the aim of improving the work environment and promoting a better work-life balance. Network MembershipsINTA, ECTA, GRUR, PTMG, MARQUES, AIPPI, FICPI, AUTM, LES, LESI, INDICAM, Union des Fabricants

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.

Grüneberg Global IP turned the traditional law firm model on its head, to set the gold standard for in-depth, cost-efficient patent counsel. In an evolving market, Grüneberg Global IP offers cost savings for patent budgets. With innovative office concepts and paper-free law practice management systems, the firm reduced overhead, bringing prices to competitive levels. State-of-the-art cloud-based file and docket management software provide robust cybersecurity and increased efficiency, within a reasonable technology budget. The firm’s experienced attorneys and staff maintain high quality. Several team members have previously worked at the International Trade Commission, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in-house positions, large general-practice firms, and IP boutiques. While the firm itself started in 2017, the firm’s staff leadership has worked in managerial and supervisory roles in larger, high-volume patent prosecution firms and in-house at large companies, thus carrying forward decades of institutional knowledge in an innovative, efficient environment. The attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP prosecute U.S. and international patent applications with skill and experience. Thousands of U.S. patents have issued as a result of the efforts of the attorneys on the Grüneberg Global IP team. Using the full menu of options available at the USPTO, Grüneberg Global IP pursues optimized, strong patent protection. The firm prides itself on detailed analysis of office actions with fast turnaround, avoiding extensions and facilitating greater familiarity with cases, both for applicants and Examiners. The firm also coordinates global prosecution and portfolio management. Maintaining relationships with patent firms globally, the attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP consolidate strategies and take the work off of in-house counsel. With its low-overhead model, Grüneberg Global IP can prosecute applications within competitive flat-rate pricing structures. The attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP have experience with numerous counseling, freedom-to-operate, and post-grant matters. The firm frequently provides freedom-to-operate, invalidity, and noninfringement opinions for clients. In addition the attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP have performed product IP-clearance projects, and have helped clients navigate pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman exclusivity and subject matter eligibility. The firm also achieved positive outcomes for clients in reexamination and in inter partes review. When in-house counsel needs to operate on a budget, the firm can work within agreed-upon price ceilings to provide thorough outside patent counsel with predictable costs. Large corporations, including Fortune 50 companies and Fortune Global 200 companies trust Grüneberg Global IP with building patent portfolios and operating in competitive IP environments. The firm serves companies in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, supporting in-house counsel in chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, construction, AI, machine learning, electronics, and tools and machinery industries. Clients have expressed high levels of satisfaction with the firm’s handling of their patent matters, as well as with the firm’s flexibility to offer competitive pricing. The firm is 100% women- and ethnic minority-owned, and includes diverse representation at all levels. Varied backgrounds strengthen the firm and provide wide-ranging perspectives. Last updated 16th January 2026

UK IP and business professionals met to celebrate the launch of a new scheme called IP Inclusive, to educate the IP community about cultivating a professional culture that embraces diversity and promotes inclusion irrespective of age, gender, sexuality, race, physical ability, faith, wealth or background

All the details of our 2016 awards winners, sports sponsorship, OEM trade mark infringement, design law in the US and EU, ambush marketing in Brazil and our latest UPC scenario are all featured in the bumper May 2016 issue of Managing IP

Though Budweiser was the official beer company sponsor of the 2010 World Cup, it was rival Bavaria that got all the attention.

Fashion companies often use their distinctive house marks in conjunction with multiple secondary marks to serve as a single source identifier for their product lines. The house mark groups the multiple different product offerings under the solitary heading of a well-known brand. The inclusion of the house mark could play a pivotal role in determining whether a likelihood of confusion exists between two otherwise similar marks.

It may be August, but the world of IP keeps revolving. Here are some updates from Australia, the US and Nigeria - and an opportunity to nominate your own unsung IP hero