What are the reasons to entrust the protection of your Intellectual Property Rights to our Office?

1. IPRs are intangible assets of great value to People and in Particular to Companies and should therefore be very well protected;

2. We have a team of multidisciplinary professionals with extensive experience in all areas of Intellectual Property.

3. We provide advisory services tailored to the needs of clients, both in Portugal and abroad. We help make informed decisions about the best option and protection solution for each case;

4. We monitor and monitor the rights during their term. We have a database of our own that we have set up and updated daily for tens of years, allowing us to act efficiently and effectively in protecting the Rights of our customers.

5. Because good protection can avoid many hardships and many FUTURE costs

 

PATENTS

If you invest in creating and innovating products or processes with industrial application, remember that your products can be protected by patents!

An invention - is usually understood as a solution to a technical problem - in order to be patentable it is necessary that it complies cumulatively with certain requirements, namely that:

· Novelty;
· Inventive Activity;
· Industrial Application

The protection of its inventions lasts for 20 years from the date of submission of the application. Protecting your ideas and innovations will have the possibility to ensure the investment made in the development of your Company.

The inventions can be alternatively, simultaneously or successively, subject to application of Utility Model.

You can count on the support of our specialists to carry out research, analysis and support in the preparation of orders, namely:

1. Evaluation and analysis of the invention, and preparation of a report on the state of the art;
2. Recommendation on the protection strategy;
3. Writing of the patent application;
4. Support in the answers and examination with the National Institute of Industrial Property;
5. Surveillance and payment of annuities;
6. Alert and monitoring of patents;
7. Technical advice.

Their Inventions may also be protected by patents in the European Community or in any Country of the World. In the presentation of international applications, we have the support of counterparts specialized in this area.

 

BRANDS

Do you have a company with products or services that you want to promote with consumers?

Want to have your exclusive use? You must then register with a Trademark. A mark which may consist of a sign or set of signs capable of being represented graphically. They can be words, drawings, letters, numbers, sounds or shapes that allow you to distinguish the products or services of your company from those of other companies.

The registration of a mark or sign confers on its holder the exclusive right of its use.

The duration of the registration of trademark is 10 years, counted from the date of the respective concession, indefinitely renewable for equal periods.

You can count on the support of our specialists to carry out your records, namely:    
1. Support and advice on the best mode of registration;    
2. Elaboration of previous feasibility studies of the registry, with evaluation of the probability of success;     
3. Preparation of the application for registration;     
4. Support to the National Institute of Industrial Property;     
5. Daily surveillance throughout the duration of the Mark and renewal notices;     
6. Alert of possible threat to rights;     
7. Technical advice.

Their Trademarks and distinctive signs may also be protected in the European Community or in any Country, as we have offices of international professionals specialized in this area spread all over the world.

 

COPYRIGHT

Did you know that creative and artistic activity, in the literary, scientific or other similar area, do not require any formality of registration? But is the same possible and recommended in certain circumstances?

When these rights are associated with other rights protected by industrial law, it is recommended that these works be deposited with the Inspectorate-General for Cultural Activities, a body that, if necessary, will confirm the ownership of the rights.

A. G. da Cunha Ferreira, has a wide and varied set of skills that allows us to advise on the promotion of these deposits with the competent body, monitoring their implementation.

You can count on the support of our specialists to register your intellectual property, namely:     
1. Register your works with the appropriate entities;     
2. Elaboration of the application for registration;     
3. Counseling.

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