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Band 1
About
Provided by Gabriel Francisco Leonardos
Practice Areas
Litigation before the Courts in IP; in consulting on licensing agreements, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and unfair competition; in trademark prosecution; and in arbitration and mediation in IP and Contract Law.
Career
Attorney at Law, Senior Partner of the firm, Industrial Property Agent, Mr. Leonardos has a MBA in Corporate Finance from FGV, Magister Iuris from USP, LLM University Ludwig-Maximilian, Munich. Former Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute (Munich, Germany). Recipient of the German Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz). Graduated in Law from UERJ.
Professional Memberships
President (2024 – 2025) of the Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property – ABPI, the Brazilian Branch of AIPPI; Member: Ethics Court of the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property – ASIPI; Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents – ABAPI; International Trademark Association – INTA; Brazilian-German Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro; International Federation of Intellectual Property Counsels – FICPI; German Association of Intellectual Property – GRUR; Consulting Board of the Brazilian Association of Financial Law – ABDF; International Fiscal Association – IFA; Board of Directors of the Center for Studies of Law Firms – CESA.
Publications
The book Taxation of Technology Transfer (1997) and several articles.
Languages Spoken
Portuguese, English and German.