Legal advice to protect creations and technologies
L.O. Baptista is specialized in advising clients from distinct industry sectors on Intellectual Property matters, in addition to representing them in complex transactions and litigation involving licensing agreements, technology transfer, investment agreements, strategic partnerships, and new digital businesses, such as in emerging areas of tokenization, applications and use of blockchain and cryptoassets.
Our teams deal with many traditional aspects related to Intellectual Property, including patents, trademarks, designs, copyright and related rights, computer programs, privacy and publicity rights, domain names, trade secrets, know-how, protection of confidential information, and acts of unfair competition. Our Firm represents clients in claims involving validity and infringement of intellectual property rights and act before court and out-of-court proceedings and regulatory bodies.
In addition, the combination of interdisciplinary teams, such as Innovation & Technology, Data Protection, Health Care and Life Sciences, Startups, M&A, Fashion Law, Dispute Resolution (Arbitration, Litigation, and Mediation), promotes opportunities, integrated legal advice, and strategic alternatives for clients with new projects and needsin the field intellectual property.
How can we help?
- Negotiations, complex transactions, and legal structuring of business models involving assets protected by intellectual property rights.
- Advice on transactions related to intellectual property registrations (trademarks, patents, designs, computer programs), product licensing, issues involving unfair competition, sponsored links, distribution, agency, commercial representation, among others.
- Advice on issues related to patents, research & development agreements, patent landscaping, Freedom-to-Operate Reports (FTO), technology licensing, productive development partnerships (PDPs), and technological input agreements.
- Representation of clients in judicial and arbitration proceedings, in addition to strategic agreements and mediation involving intellectual property, digital assets, and new technologies.
- Assisting clients in projects and disputes related to enforcement of IP rights, defenses based on exceptions and limitations to IP rights, defenses in infringement of IP rights, use of social media, protection of content creators and social media influencers, cloud services, and digitization processes.
- Strategic advice in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sectors, in all phases, from research and development (R&D), transactions, regulatory approvals, to protective measures to mitigate clients’ exposure to litigation risks and judicial and extrajudicial claims.
- Advice on data privacy issues, violation of security devices, actions and complaints involving intellectual property on the internet, such as platforms, social networks, and marketplace.
- Intellectual property, trade, and regulatory issues, and disputes and proceedings in international fora such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization.
