Career
Antonella Carminatti is a partner at BMA and head of the IP practice area. Her work covers all aspects of intellectual property, especially portfolio management, transactional intellectual property, Contracts involving intellectual property rights, litigation, and strategy.
Antonella is admitted to practice law in Brazil and is also licensed by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals as special legal consultant. Her experience includes developing IP strategy, management of IP assets and transactions involving intellectual property, including trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyright, industrial designs, and trade dress. She works on anti-counterfeiting programmes and litigation of IP and related rights, such as unfair competition, domain names and trade dress cases, before the Brazilian federal and state courts, and has earned a reputation as a successful litigator in IP matters. Carminatti is also known for her skills in drafting and reviewing domestic and foreign license agreements involving patents, trademarks, and copyright, as well as franchise, technology, and software agreements.
Carminatti regularly counsels clients on the selection and adoption of trademarks, how to build and enhance rights in brands, and enforcement strategies. She has assisted clients in multimillion-dollar transactions involving acquisition and divestiture of IP portfolios.
A frequent participant and speaker at IP seminars and meetings in Brazil and abroad, Carminatti is member of the Board Committee of BMA and ABPI - Brazilian Intellectual Property Association and is a member of the Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee of INTA - International Trademark Association.
