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Gusmão & Labrunie

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets

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Gusmão & Labrunie

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Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets - Brazil

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Gusmão & Labrunie is a top firm lauded for its exceptional IP expertise. Its noteworthy client base includes key companies from various sectors, including pharmaceutical and cosmetics, food and beverages, automotive and retail. The firm boasts remarkable bench strength, particularly for handling contentious mandates such as patent nullity actions. Its full IP legal assistance department stands out in trade mark portfolio management, trade dress and unfair competition issues.

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Work Highlights

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  • Gusmão & Labrunie represented Unilever in trade mark and trade dress enforcement matters, including acting in IP disputes against key competitors.

Strengths

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  • Gusmão & Labrunie has been a key strategic partner, providing comprehensive services in intellectual property advisory and litigation, with a particular focus on trade marks.

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  • Gusmão & Labrunie adds significant value, brings a strong strategic perspective and proactively seeks to fully understand the parties, even when information is initially incomplete.

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  • Highly reliable, Gusmão & Labrunie consistently pursues the best strategies and manages deadlines with great care, particularly in strategic litigation matters.

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  • The Gusmão & Labrunie team demonstrates excellent technical skills and in-depth knowledge of the field, inspiring confidence in their guidance.

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  • Gusmão & Labrunie acts proactively, with excellent coordination with foreign correspondents, in addition to offering high-level technical and legal support.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Jacques Labrunie
    Jacques Labrunie

    Jacques Labrunie

    Jacques Labrunie is widely viewed as a prominent figure in the market and enjoys a good reputation among his peers. Labrunie has a solid track record in contentious matters, and is regularly mandated by key clients to deal with sophisticated patent and trade mark litigation.

    • Jacques Labrunie has a solid track record in contentious matters and is regularly mandated by key clients to deal with sophisticated patent and trade mark litigation.

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    • Jacques Labrunie is highly experienced and brings strong strategic vision to the work. Although not purely technical in nature, he is fully capable of handling complex technical discussions.

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    • Jacques Labrunie stands out for his technical depth, clear communication and ability to combine solid legal knowledge with a practical and strategic business vision.

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  • João Vieira da Cunha
    João Vieira da Cunha

    João Vieira da Cunha

    João Vieira da Cunha is well regarded for his experience in litigation in IP, which covers trade dress disputes, unfair competition and protection and defence of trade marks, in both administrative and judicial proceedings.

    • João Vieira da Cunha stands out for the clarity with which he translates the technical complexity of legal proceedings for the board of directors and non-legal stakeholders.

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    • Always closely involved, João Vieira da Cunha is fully up to date on all matters.

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  • José Roberto Gusmão
    José Roberto Gusmão

    José Roberto Gusmão

    José Roberto Gusmão is particularly lauded for his expertise, academic background and well-established reputation for excellence in dealing with sophisticated patent matters. Clients benefit from his broad experience handling complex litigation proceedings and international patent prosecution.

    • José Roberto Gusmão provides us with different strategies and solutions with technical quality, helping us achieve our business goals.

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  • Laetitia d'Hanens
    Laetitia d'Hanens

    Laetitia d'Hanens

    Laetitia d'Hanens is experienced in non-contentious work, including technology licence and patent agreements, as well as strategic trade mark prosecution.

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  • Elisson Garé
    Elisson Garé

    Elisson Garé

    Elisson Garé has a good reputation for his focused anti-counterfeit work. Known for his technical approach to IP matters, he boasts several fashion and deluxe goods powerhouses as clients.

    • Elisson Garé is fully available and genuinely committed to meeting clients’ needs and demands.

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    • Proactive, responsive and determined, Elisson Garé is someone we trust deeply.

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  • Thiago Arpagaus De Souza
    Thiago Arpagaus De Souza

    Thiago Arpagaus De Souza

    Thiago Arpagaus de Souza is an intellectual property lawyer who consistently receives strong endorsement in the market due to his skills on trade mark portfolio management and trade dress infringement matters.

    • With a remarkable talent for breaking down and analysing complicated cases, Thiago Arpagaus de Souza consistently provides clear and effective solutions to our most complex requests.

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    • Thiago Arpagaus de Souza is proactive in identifying protection gaps and provides advice on the use of IP in innovative projects, especially marketing, anticipating and mitigating regulatory risks and conflicts with third parties.

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Ranked Individuals at Gusmão & Labrunie (8)

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    Jacques Labrunie

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    João Vieira da Cunha

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    Laetitia d'Hanens

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    Elisson Garé

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    Thiago Arpagaus De Souza

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