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António Andrade

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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

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António Andrade –Abreu Advogados

Praised for its ‘excellent technical capacity’ and ability to always be ‘at the forefront of legislative innovation’, the team at Abreu Advogados consistently provides high-quality service across a broad range of contentious and non-contentious IP matters. Acting for both domestic and international clients, the team is adept at handling trade mark and patent prosecution and litigation, unfair competition, copyright protection and licensing issues. At the helm of the practice is a trio of experts: Manuel Durães Rocha, who focuses primarily on matters related to the health and pharma sector; António Andrade, who is a reference for litigation and arbitration proceedings regarding patents, trade marks, designs, copyright and trade secrets; and Ricardo Henriques, who covers a wide array of IP matters, with a particular focus on technology. Elsewhere in the team, César Bessa Monteiro, jr is noted for his deep knowledge of innovation, trade secrets, design, and unfair competition, while Gonçalo Malheiro specialises in copyrights and tech litigation.

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