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Intellectual Property — securing business innovations.

In modern economies innovations such as inventions, product designs or brands and logos are very important assets and emblematic flags of companies and businesses. Intellectual Property is about securing and strengthening those business innovations.

We help to obtain safe and wise forms of IP protection worldwide.

Recent News

The new European Union Design legislation

| Designs, European Union, Industrial Property, Portugal | No Comments
The new EU design legislation is set out in two new acts adopted by the European Parliament and the Council which have just been published in the EU Official Journal…

Portugal – IP Office increases the official fees

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According to the Decision No. 447/2024 of the Management Board of the Portuguese IP Office and the Government Regulation No. 201-A/2019, new official fees are applicable in the Industrial Property…

Geographical Indications: distinctive signs of cultural heritage

| European Union, Geographical indications, Industrial Property, Portugal | No Comments
Geographical Indications are collective intellectual property rights intended to protect the names of certain products that have specific characteristics linked to their geographic origin. GIs are linked to the historical…

World Trademark Review: SGCR is ranked as World’s Leading Trademark Professionals

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We are delighted to announce that Simões Garcia Corte-Real & Associados and its trademark professionals were again recommended by the international magazine World Trademark Review for 2024! We are honored…

Official Fees for Industrial Property in Mozambique updated

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The official fees for industrial property rights applicable in the Industrial Property Institute of Mozambique were updated by the Ministerial Decree No. 154/2023, of 29 December. The fees were substantially…

Portugal joins the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement

| Geographical indications, Highlight, Industrial Property, Lisbon Agreementon on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications, Portugal | No Comments
On October 18, 2023, the Government of Portugal deposited its instrument of ratification to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indication (“Geneva Act”). This ratification…