Industrial Property

Organized by the Intellectual Property Unit of the TT@Técnico – Technology Transfer Area, the second session of IP Talks took place on November 23rd. These sessions were organized with the aim of offering insights into the subject of Industrial Property for master's and PhD students, researchers, and professors. The events took place at the Alameda Campus of Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal.

With the initiative of SENADIAC (National Service of Copyright and Related Rights), affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Forum on the National Intellectual Property System took place on November 13th and 14th in Luanda.

We are pleased to welcome Joana Fialho Pinto, Trademark and Patent Attorney and European Trademark and Design Attorney,  to Inventa. Joana's integration into the team aligns with our commitment to bringing experienced professionals from various sectors and maintaining effective responsiveness to all our clients and partners. 

In today's world of mass consumption and standardization of products, protecting a brand is essential for success. Vitor Palmela Fidalgo shares his opinion on the crucial practice of ensuring trademark registration before starting promotional activities and on the strategic necessity by advising “Never begin using or advertising a brand without having the registration requested”.

Solutions offered by computer simulations are very welcome when it comes to preventing the past from repeating itself in the future.

Based on EPO Decision G1/19, Susana Azevedo Rodrigues clarifies the eligibility of a patent related to computer simulations and describes three fatal historical events that could have ended differently if innovative computer simulations had been made available at the time.

Mauritius is enjoying a year full of changes and progress, which began with the Industrial Property Act 2019 entering into force on January 31, 2022.

Currently, Mauritius is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Universal Copyright Convention, and the Berne Convention.

The Portuguese Patent Law (CPI) may provide interesting ways for an applicant to file a priority document in Portugal and when filing subsequent patent applications abroad.

The CPI provides users of the patent system with two embodiments of patent applications, namely a provisional patent application (PPA) and a non-provisional patent application (PA).

This article aims to present the advantages to the user to begin a patent family in Portugal, including some careful considerations, especially when the applicant chooses to take the PPA route.

Inventa has been contributing to updating several chapters related to African jurisdictions in the Manual of Industrial Property (also known as The Brown Book), published every year by Wolters Kluwer International Group.

As usual, the contribution of Inventa outlines the procedures and laws involved in filing applications for patents, trademarks or designs specifically in ARIPO, OAPI, Somalia, South Sudan, Madagascar, DR Congo, Seychelles, Zambia, Malawi, Gambia, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, and Sierra Leone.

World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated on April 26 and, this year, with the theme chosen by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): “IP and Youth: innovating for a better future”. The relationship between youth and IP has at least two directions. In one direction, youth innovate and get protection through IP. In another, youth are the main addressees of IP-protected innovations. It is mainly in this direction of the relationship that the sub-theme of trademarks in the metaverse is situated.

What is the metaverse?

The African economy is losing billions of dollars for not protecting their intellectual property (IP), says Prof. Munashe Furusa, Vice-Chancellor of Africa University, in Zimbabwe. And young inventors are among the most concerned.

The number of inventors from all over the continent that struggle to develop, manufacture, protect and commercialize their inventions, is considerable. Inevitably, it results in an important loss of earnings to the inventors and to the economies.