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António Andrade
Work Department
Intellectual Property and Information Technology
Position
Partner
Career
António Andrade has been a partner at Abreu Advogados since 2019, working predominantly on all matters related to intellectual property law.
He has been particularly involved in court and arbitration litigation regarding patents (especially pharmaceutical patents), trade marks, designs, copyright and trade secrets, having built up experience over more than twenty years.
He has also advised a number of companies on intellectual property enforcement strategies and also on defending the validity of those rights.
António has extensive experience in prosecution of all types of intellectual property rights.
He is a Specialist Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law (a title awarded by the Portuguese Bar Association) and a Patent, Trade Mark and Design Attorney. He is also a member of several national and international intellectual property organisations (ACPI, AIPPI, ECTA, FICPI, INTA, MARQUES, UNION-IP), having been the President of ECTA’s Design Committee (2010-2016). He is currently a member of ECTA’s Copyright Committee, UNION-IP’s Litigation Commission and the International Chamber of Commerce’s PT Commission on Intellectual Property (ICC).
He has been a guest speaker and participant at many national and international congresses and seminars on intellectual property, and has published numerous articles and studies on intellectual property law at international level.
He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Science and Technology Faculty of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is a lecturer on the postgraduate course in Intellectual Law of the Faculty of Law of Lisbon and APDI.
He has been recognised for many years in the main international directories, such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and IP Stars. Since 2015 Who’s Who Legal has described him as one of the world’s leading patents lawyers and leading trademark lawyers.
Winner of the award “Best Lawyer of the Year 2020 in Intellectual Property” – “Best Lawyers”.
Languages
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association
AIPPI
European Communities Trade Mark Association
International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
International Trademark Association
Union
Education
| Law degree from University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (1991) |
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Intellectual property
(Leading individuals)Abreu Advogados
fields a ‘very dynamic’ team, praised for its ‘consistent high quality service’ in the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious IP matters. With a diverse roster of domestic and international clients on its books, the ‘top-notch’ practice covers trade mark and patent prosecution, litigation, unfair competition, copyright protection and licensing matters, among other matters. The practice is jointly steered by three IP specialists: Manuel Durães Rocha, who works primarily in the areas of intellectual and industrial property in the health and pharmaceuticals sector; António Andrade, noted for his focus on pharmaceutical patent litigation and issues related to the health sector; and Ricardo Henriques, who advises clients on the gamut of IP matters, focusing particularly on the technology sector. César Bessa Monteiro, jr is recommended for his vast experience in matters related to innovation, inventions, brands, trade secrets, unfair competition, copyrights and design.
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