Brazil: Industries & Sectors
Practice Areas
Strategic consultation and Litigation in IP matters: covering both litigation and counselling in the areas of trademarks, anti-counterfeiting, unfair competition, copyrights, IP contracts, innovation law and trade secrets. She excels in the strategic planning of IP-related litigation and in the establishment of anti-counterfeiting programmes.
Career
Senior Partner and Co-founder of Kasznar Leonardos, Ms Kasznar Fekete has over 30 years’ practice in intellectual property. A distinguished lecturer, examining professor of master’s degrees and doctoral theses and coordinator of IP courses. She has a law degree (1981) awarded with honours from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate in commercial law (1999) from the University of Sao Paulo. In 1984 she was a Former Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute (Germany). Ms Kasznar Fekete speaks Portuguese, English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian and Italian.
Professional Memberships
Permanent Council member and Arbiter of the Arbitration Board (CArb) of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI); Currently member of ABPI's Council; Member of the INTA Board of Directors, the Global Advisory Council, and the Adjunct Professor Interest Group; Senior Editor of the Trademark Reporter Committee (TMR).
Publications
Treatise “Trade Secrets Under Brazilian Law” (2003) and more than 40 articles and book chapters on IP matters.