AREA OF PRACTICE

Intellectual Property

Vainer & Villela Advogados’ relies on members specialized in IP practice and excells on a broad spectrum of IP-related services, both on civil and criminal spheres. Our services include:

Administrative Law

• Administrative litigation: registration of trademarks, patents and industrial designs, administrative defenses, oppositions, administrative proceedings seeking annulment, nonuse cancellation proceedings, applications for denial of third-party patents based on priority and information on state of the art (technical support filings)
• Piracy-fighting on administrative level
• Applications concerning copyrrights before the Biblioteca Nacional and Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (copyright)
• Registration and maintenance of domain names

Litigation

• Filing of and defense in lawsuits to refrain use of trademarks, patents, industrial design, trade-dress and other copyright-protected rights.
• Filing of and defense in injunctive actions, criminal charges and other protective remedies to assure our clients’s intellectual property rights
• Combating antitrust practices

Consulting Services

• Legal Opinions
• Protection of intellectual property assets under Nondisclosure Agreements, Proof of Concept (PoC) Agreements, assignment and licensing of intellectual property assets
• Legal protection to trade secrets
• Preliminary surveys on industrial property assets under the FTO (freedom to operate) system
• Technology Agreements (ToT)