Comprehensive expertise in intellectual property.

Inhibiting anti-competitive practices is of utmost importance today, and it also concerns the enforcement of intellectual property rights. We advise our clients on the prevention and combat of crimes against the national economic order, representing them before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and other antitrust bodies, particularly in the defense of industrial property rights.

We provide comprehensive legal advice on all matters relating to Intellectual Property agreements, including Licensing, Technology Transfer and Franchising, as well as the preparation of legal opinions, agreements and provisions concerning non-compete obligations, confidentiality, employee inventions, commissioned works, copyrights and other related matters, with a view to developing the most effective strategy for protecting your intellectual property assets.

The professionals at Luiz Leonardos & Advogados provide advice on all matters related to copyright, including advising and obtaining copyright registrations for our clients' works. We conduct infringement analyses and implement legal strategies for copyright protection.

Brazilian legislation has provided, since 1997, through its own system based on the Union pour La Protection de las Variétés Vegetales (UPOV), for the protection of plant varieties, known as "cultivars". Linked to the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Plant Variety Protection Service (SNPC) analyzes applications for cultivar registration in the country. Luiz Leonardos & Advogados has highly qualified professionals to act in the process of obtaining cultivar protection registration with the SNPC and in taking measures for its due compliance.

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados is recognized for its expertise in managing domain names in Brazil and abroad, serving both small businesses and large corporations. We assist clients throughout all stages of domain name registration and maintenance, including prior art searches, renewal applications, recordal of changes in ownership, as well as the filing of oppositions, appeals, and administrative nullity proceedings.

Our team has extensive experience in taking and following up on all measures necessary to maintain, protect, and enforce our clients’ rights over their domain names.

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados provides legal assistance to players in the entertainment and advertising markets, including legislative counseling, analysis of self-regulatory standards, and representation before CONAR (the Brazilian Advertising Self-Regulation Council). Our practice also encompasses the production of agreements, the licensing and assignment of copyright, image rights releases, and other related services in this field.

To meet the specific needs of the fashion industry, our firm advises clients in the apparel, accessories, leather goods, and luxury sectors, covering the protection of intellectual property assets (trademarks, patents, industrial designs, and copyright), the structuring of agreements, strategic counseling, anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting measures, and extrajudicial and judicial proceedings involving fashion-related disputes, among other services.

We provide comprehensive assistance in connection with the registration and protection of Geographical Indications, which identify products whose characteristics, qualities, or reputation are associated with their geographical origin and with human or natural factors specific to a particular region.

Geographical Indications have been protected in Brazil since the enactment of Law No. 9,279/1996, which established their protection under industrial property law and granted the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) authority to regulate and grant the respective registrations.

The registration of a Geographical Indication makes it possible to recognize and protect the characteristics and origin of products from a particular region, enhancing their value, strengthening local identity, and fostering investment in the producing region. In addition, such protection may add value to and enhance the competitive advantage of products and services associated with their region of origin, thereby contributing to the region’s economic and social development.

The professionals at Luiz Leonardos & Advogados provide advice on all matters related to industrial designs, such as consulting, drafting, filing, and monitoring registration applications in Brazil and abroad. We have solid expertise in monitoring third-party cases and filing oppositions, as well as nullity requests, both in the administrative and judicial spheres, being capable of taking and enforcing all necessary measures to maintain and protect our clients' rights.

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados has solid experience in judicial litigation related to intellectual property rights. We represent our clients in nullity actions before the Federal Court, as well as in judicial actions before the State Court, actions for unfair competition, and judicial litigation related to procedures linked to the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA). Arbitration also stands out in our areas of expertise. Luiz Leonardos Advogados has a multidisciplinary team of lawyers ready to represent clients, including in urgent matters, anywhere in the national territory.

The professionals at Luiz Leonardos & Advogados are involved in the entire processing of patent applications, both in Brazil and abroad. We have extensive experience in conducting prior art searches including FTO (“freedom to operate”), state-of-the-art research, patentability analyses, drafting patent applications, filing with the INPI, and other procedures such as compliance with requirements, submissions, appeals, payment of annuities and final fees, among others, in addition to providing advisory services in this area of intellectual property. In short, our solid experience allows us to take all necessary measures to maintain and protect our clients' rights.

With the creation of the National Data Protection Authority – ANPD, on December 28, 2018, LLA strengthens its role in assisting its clients in the development of privacy and data usage policies, as well as contractual negotiations involving these topics.

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados has an exclusive team to conduct procedures with the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA). We advise clients on regulatory matters and act to maintain clients' exclusivity rights over data packages, as provided by the TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and based on local provisions regulating unfair competition. These rights are essential for research-based pharmaceutical companies, which need to send large volumes of information to ANVISA to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of their product innovations. In certain situations, compliance with exclusivity rights over data packages is the only way to prevent generic industry companies from using the innovative manufacturer's data package to obtain approval for their generic versions, instead of conducting their own clinical tests.

We provide assistance throughout all stages of the registration process for software, integrated circuits, and their respective topographies, from filing through to the granting of the respective registrations.

Daily, companies deal with strategic and confidential information. Trade secrets are highly valuable assets, and in Brazil, they receive proper legal protection. Luiz Leonardos & Advogados provides advisory services in the protection of trade secrets, such as drafting and enforcing confidentiality agreements and ensuring the maintenance of clients' exclusive rights over data packages, as provided by the TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and based on local provisions regulating unfair competition.

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados is recognized for its expertise in managing trademark portfolios in Brazil and abroad, serving both small businesses and large corporations. We assist clients throughout all stages of trademark registration and maintenance, including trademark clearance searches, renewal applications, recordal of changes in ownership, as well as the filing of oppositions, appeals, and administrative nullity proceedings.

Our team has extensive experience in taking and following up on all measures necessary to maintain, protect, and enforce our clients’ trademark rights.

Unfair competition, such as the theft of trade secrets, imitation of a competitor's product trade dress, and misleading advertising, has specific regulation under Brazilian law. Luiz Leonardos & Advogados provides advice on all matters related to unfair competition, damage prevention, and compliance with protection according to the legal provisions on unfair competition. In addition, we have solid expertise in implementing anti-piracy and border measures, conducting investigations, and obtaining information directly from Customs in cooperation with government authorities, ensuring the success of our strategies.