Leaders League Expert Insights 2025: Vitor Palmela Fidalgo
With deep expertise in intellectual property law and a role as an expert at the UPC Mediation and Arbitration Centre, Vitor Palmela Fidalgo shares the challenges and priorities of advising clients on IP matters both locally and internationally, and explains how the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is shaping patent litigation, enforcement, and broader IP trends in Portugal and across Europe.
Vítor Palmela Fidalgo represents Portugal at the PMAC meeting in Ljubljana
On April 8, the first in-person meeting of the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) of the Unified Patent Court was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Vítor Palmela Fidalgo, Legal Director at Inventa and the Portugal’s representative of the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) Committee, attended the session, contributing to ongoing efforts to structure the Court’s Mediation and Arbitration Center and to define specific topics essential to the development of PMAC’s operations.
Vítor Palmela Fidalgo appointed Portuguese representative to the UPC Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre
Vítor Palmela Fidalgo, Legal Director of Inventa, Lawyer, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, has been appointed by the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as the Portuguese representative on the court's Mediation and Arbitration Center.