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Pioneers in IP Strategy and Protection

Your trusted Intellectual Property consulting firm, specialized in defining and implementing comprehensive strategies to safeguard your valuable intangible assets.

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Our approach to IP Protection

We add value at every stage of the life cycle of your Intellectual Property assets

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IP asset identification

Comprehensive background checks.

We analyse the existing IP gaps and loop-holes that typically exist in your business.

An IP strategy is taylor-made to adapt to your activity, in order to maximize the intangible asset value that may exist.

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Course of action
  • Identification of risks and opportunities.
  • Definition of a taylor-made IP Strategy.
  • Optimization of existing intangible assets.
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IP protection

Efficient filing strategy

Our experts secure your IP before the official entities and institutes to protect trademarks, patents and other rights.

Your IP is secured by filing trademarks, patents and other IP rights, to provide you with a strong basis for intangible asset maximization.

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  • We file for the registration of trademark registrations to secure your different brands.
  • Patent applications are filed to secure your technical inventions
  • All copyright that is created within the organization is registered
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Monitoring, maintaining & enforcing IP rights

Careful monitorization.

The careful monitorization and enforcement of your IP portfolio is usually critical for a company's success

We monitor your IP portfolio and take action against infringements.

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Course of action
  • Establish regular watch mechanisms to identify any potential conflict in its early stages
  • Enforce your rights by the systematic intervention before the competent authorities
  • Careful management and maintenance of the current IP portfolio to ensure that all formalities are dully accounted for
  • A litigation strategy dully set in place to prevent other IP rights to take hold
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IP valuation and commercialisation

Because value matters

We maximise the value of your intellectual capital with our IP valuation and commercialisation strategies.

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Course of action
  • Set up licensing agreements between your IP holder organization and third entities.
  • Periodically assess the value generated by your main IP rights.
  • Financially integrate the IP strategy into the overall organization.
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Highlights

Learn more about the funds directed to support SME´s

The SME Fund will provide financial support for EU SMEs to protect their IP rights. The support consists of the award of a voucher giving access to partial reimbursement of the official fees payable.

Get to know our platform for buying/selling IP assets

Find out about the IP assets (trademarks, patents, designs or other IP rights) currently available for trading.

News

Article by Manuel Moniz Pereira in CIP Magazine - Uncomplicating the New European Patent with Unitary Effect

See the publication by Manuel Moniz Pereira, AOPI at Gastão, who comments on the new European Patent with Unitary Effect system.

Article by Alexandra Oliveira in CIP Magazine - The Unitary Patent

See the publication by Alexandra Oliveira, AOPI at Gastão, who comments on the new European Patent with Unitary Effect system

Protecting SMEs' creativity and innovation is now simpler and cheaper

The EU programme "Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund" reopened yesterday with funds available in the amount of €25 million. The funds will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and each SME can receive up to €2,350 in one year.

IP and AI

Global investment in AI startups reached $38 billion in the first half of 2021. We asked #OpenAI's #ChatGPT to describe the relationship between AI and IP. At the end we asked #DALL-E to illustrate the publication.

The «Invisible Powers» of AI

Why is it that countless innovative products and businesses fall into the valley of death, despite meeting market needs and appearing to be good ideas?

The Unitary Patent is coming into force

Bringing huge savings, the Unitary Patent will allow to protect innovations in a simpler, faster and more economical way.

The relevance of Priority Searches

There is no new business that doesn't start by creating a brand. The next step is to register it to make it your own. But the creation process can lead to new brands which, all things considered... are not new.

SME Ideas Powered for Business

More than 15,000 SMEs have already benefited from the funds of the "SME Ideas Powered for Business" programme across the European Union, but Portugal appears in 10th place, with only 499 SMEs between January and July 2022 having benefited from this fund.

Purchase and sale of registered trademarks

A new "batch" of trademarks have entered our trademark selling platform. These are trademarks destined to signal products or services related to sports (golf and padel) and tourism.

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