The new Portuguese Industrial Property Code was published last
10th December in the Portuguese Official Journal and will be in
force as of the 1st July 2019.
However there are two important chapters that will be in force
as of 9 January 2019 and 1 January 2019 respectively.
These chapters are related with the following legal aspects:
1) The modification of the Portuguese Law
nº 62/2011 regulating through mandatory arbitration the
pharmaceutical patent disputes between patentees and generic
medicines companies;
2) Trade
secrets.
As regard to the modification of the
Portuguese Law nº 62/2011 that regulates through mandatory
arbitration the pharmaceutical patent disputes between patentees
and generic medicines companies we highlight that the new
Portuguese Industrial Property Code establishes very important
novelties, such as:
