Trademarks

• We conduct preliminary trademark searches, in Brazil and abroad;
• We prepare, process and file trademark applications;
• We maintain a surveillance process of brands applied by third parties liable to conflict with
  brands of interest to our customers;
• We elaborate court or out-of-court notifications, administrative oppositions, annulment appeals,
  as the case may be;
• We also promote registration renewals.
  
  

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Patents

• We elaborate and make the applications for national and international patents;
• We follow up the entire procedure until the patent certification is granted;
• We take of its maintenance, paying all annuities at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office
  (INPI);
• In addition, we are in constant surveillance process in relation to third party processes.
  
  

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Contracts

• We guide and follow up on the negotiations of contracts for assignment and exploitation of
  trademarks and patents, technology transfer agreements; franchising agreements and others;
• We elaborate the contracts;
• We legalize the contracts at the INPI and Central Bank.
  

Technology Transfer Agreements

• Contracts in which industrial knowledge is transferred. This can be regarded as the essential
  knowledge for production of a good intended for marketing;
• The modalities of technology transfer are:
  a) license for use of industrial privilege (patent exploitation);
  b) license for use of industrial registration (trademark use);
  c) supply of technology ;
  d) technical and scientific assistance service rendering.
  
  
  
  
  

Franchising Agreements

• Contract in which a certain company is granted the use of a patent or brand known by the
  consumer and well accepted for its qualities.
  

Copyrights

• Right the author of a literary, artistic or scientific work has to exploit his work economically that
  can be transferred to his/her heir or successors;
• We register the works at the competent bodies;
• We elaborate contracts for license and assignment of author's rights.
  
  

Software

• The Software Law defines as a computer program an organized set of instructions in natural
  or coded language, to be used in machines to attain a certain purpose;
• We legalize the contracts and register the computer programs at INPI.
  
  

Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets

• We elaborate contracts aimed at protecting business secrets;
• We analyze and propose the necessary measures to defend customers against unfair
  competition practiced by third parties or to prevent it, including pertinent lawsuits.
  
  

Plant variety Protection

• We guide and apply for protection of new plant cultivations at the National Service for
  Cultivation Protection (SNPC - Serviço Nacional de Proteção de Cultivares);
• We follow up the process and pay all annuities when the certificate is granted.
  
  

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Programs for tax avoidance

• We advise on the tax advantages with research and development of technological innovation
  of products and enrollment in the Government Programs.

Legal Services

• We guide, advise and prepare the best protection of our customers' rights in the area of:
• Industrial Property;
• Business and Corporate Law;
• Contract Law;
• Litigation;
• We represent our customers in legal matters in the spheres of the Federal and State Courts.