Luiz Leonardos & Advogados

Managing Partner: Gustavo Leonardos

Number of partners and lawyers: 12

Firm Overview:

LUIZ LEONARDOS E ADVOGADOS mixes the expertise and resourcefulness over 100 years of work devoted to intellectual property in Brazil with the advantages of a newly created framework, one that is more effective and personal in the interaction with clients. The firm was created as a direct result of the split of Momsen Leonardos & Cia. on April 30, 2012. Luiz Leonardos E Advogados has 16 partners and over 60 experienced professionals dedicated to all areas related to IP. The experience acquired by the Senior Partners with over 50 years of distinguished practice in IP enabled the creation of a highly specialised team of attorneys, engineers, biologists and industrial property agents. Luiz Leonardos E Advogados provides all the assistance necessary to obtaining, maintaining and protecting intellectual property rights in the administrative sphere and before the Brazilian Courts.

Main Areas of Practice:

Patents:

The firm is involved with the entire patent prosecution, both in Brazil and abroad. The professionals are skilled in performing patent searches including FTO, prior art searches, among others, as well as patentability analysis and drafting patent applications.

Trademarks, Trade Names & Domain Names:

The firm is a reference in the management of trademark portfolios, in Brazil and abroad, both for small and big companies.

Designs:

The firm is in a position to provide legal advice in all matters related to designs.

Geographical Indications:

The firm performs all the prosecution work to protect the clients’ geographical indications - human or natural factors capable of attributing values and characteristics to a determined product.

Copyrights:

The firm provides consultancy services and obtaining registration to client´s works, also performing infringement analyses and implementing legal strategies to enforce copyrights.

Software, Integrated Circuit, Topography:

The firm also handles prosecution of software and integrated circuit topography applications, filing and monitoring all prosecution thereof until registration.

Plant Varieties:

The firm has highly skilled professionals to undertake the process of obtaining the respective registration and to enforce such intellectual property rights.

Trade Secrets & Confidential Data:

The firm offers specific services to protect trade secrets, drafting and enforcing confidentiality agreements, and enforcing clients’ data package exclusivity rights.

Contracts, Technology Transfer, Licensing & Franchising:

The firm’s licensing team is skilled in drafting opinions, contracts and non-compete clauses, creating the best tax strategies and establishing the best way to remit royalties to foreign countries.

Food & Drug:

The team advises clients on regulatory matters and enforces their data package exclusivity rights, which are especially relevant to the research-based pharmaceutical companies.

Antitrust & Competition:

The firm provides advice on the prevention and combat of offenses against the economic order and represents them before the Administrative Council for the Defense of the Economy (CADE) and other antitrust agencies.

Entertainment & Advertising:

The firm advises clients on contracts related to production, licensing and assignment of copyrights, also representing them before the National Advertising Self Regulating Council (CONAR).

Unfair Competition & Anti-Counterfeiting Measures:

The firm’s clients are advised in all matters related to unfair competition, preventing liability and enforcing the protection provided for by the unfair competition legal provisions, also implementing anti-counterfeiting and boarder measures, performing investigations, among other services.

Litigation:

The firm has great experience handling all kinds of litigation related to intellectual property rights. In particular, representing clients in invalidity lawsuits filed before federal courts, and in enforcement lawsuits filed with local state courts, as well as unfair competition lawsuits.

Languages:

English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish.

International Work:

The firm handles intellectual property matters worldwide, including patent and trademark filing and prosecution, through local trusted associated law firms in the desired jurisdiction.

Clients:

The firm handles IP matters on behalf of national and foreign companies and multinational corporations predominantly in the sectors of global consumer, biotechnology, consumer healthcare, entertainment, and information technology.

CONTACTS

IP: Gustavo Leonardos e Luiz Leonardos

Patents: Ana Paula Jardim

Trademarks: Patrícia Aragão Lusoli

Trade Names & Domain Names: Daniele Machado

Designs: Herminia Mendes

Geographical Indications: Luiz Leonardos, Suzana Lemos & Constanza Woltzenlogel

Copyrights: Constanza Woltzenlogel and Daniele Machado

Plant Varieties: Andrea Granthon

Trade Secrets & Confidential Data: Paulo Armando Innocente de Souza

Food & Drug Law: Paulo Armando Innocente de Souza

Antitrust & Competition Law: Gustavo Leonardos

Entertainment & Advertising Law: Paulo Armando Innocente de Souza

Unfair Competititon & Anti-Counterfeiting Measures: Constanza Woltzenlogel

Litigation: Paulo Armando Innocente de Souza, Daniele Machado & Constanza Woltzenlogel

Address:

Headquarters: Av. das Américas, 4200, BL9, Suites 217-B to 220-B | Rio de Janeiro, RJ | Brazil | 22640-102.

São Paulo Branch: 1098, St Leopoldo Couto de Magalhães Júnior / Conj. 44 - Itaim Bibi - São Paulo, SP - CEP 04542-001 Brazil.

Emails: [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected]

Website: http://www.llip.com