Trademarks

Universidade Nova de Lisboa was the chosen stage for the initiative Intellectual Property for Fashion Entrepreneurs.

At this event, organized by Community in Law, the participant, from all over the fashion industry, had the opportunity to learn, with João Francisco Sá, some of the best strategies to protect their designs and trademarks.

World Trademark Review (WTR) has just announced its WTR 1000 - The World's Leading Trademark Professionals. In this year’s edition, of this important worldwide rank, Inventa International is recommended as a top Intellectual Property firm.

On December 4, Samoa’s Government deposited its instrument of accession to join the Madrid Protocol with WIPO’s Director General, Francis Gurry.

The 7th edition of BIP Asia took place on the 6 and 7 December 2018, at Hong Kong’s Conference and Exhibition Center. The event gathered a wide number of professionals as well as trademark owners and representatives, that had the opportunity to exchange ideas about the business of IP.

The deadline granted by the Angolan Institute of Industrial Property (IAPI), for applicants to present the documents to update their requests to register brands from 5,001 to 20.757, ends on the 26 December 2018. 

This process started in December last year, at which time Inventa International announced its beginning, having also informed about the required documents to update the files referring to these trademarks.

The conflict between the Club and the Public Limited Sports Company (a special Public Limited Company 'SA' in Portugal to improve financial management and transparency in sports clubs known as SAD) of the historic Club of Lisbon had one more development following the end of the protocol signed by both entities, after which the first announced the registration of a senior football team in the district

Inventa International attended the Economic Forum Portugal-Angola, that took place in Oporto in Portugal. The event highlighted the importance of economic relations between the two countries, where we are proud to work with several business areas, protecting all Intellectual Property interests.

The wish to foster a cooperative relationship between the two countries was reinforced on this initiative, attended by Portugal's Prime Minister António Costa and the Angolan President, João Lourenço.

The need to improve the terms of the Bangui Agreement led the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) to revise the document, signed on 14 December 2015 in Bamako, Mali.

After a discussion period of three year, OAPI recently made public the major alterations to the Agreement, that will improve the quality of its operational procedures, bringing it closer to practices of other international organisms.  

The most important business fair of Cape Verde, FIC 2018, took place at

Between the 6th and the 8th November the Intellectual Property community gathered in New Orleans for the 2018 INTA Leadership Meeting. This event aims to define the Association’s objectives and goals for the upcoming year.

This year our team was represented by Daniel Reis Nobre, who is a member of INTA’s Enforcement Committee, and João Batalha, has a member of the Internet Committee.