Although accepted by Brazilian law since 1996, the BPTO still struggles to establish reasonable standards for the application of registrability...
OUR TEAM
Rafael has been working with Intellectual Property since 2005 and is currently leading the trademark litigation and Brand Protection teams of Daniel Law. He is a specialist in civil litigation with LL.M. degree on litigation and has solid experience in a wide range of complex disputes copyright and IP rights (including unfair competition cases), as well as in the development and enforcement of strategies for protection and enforcement of these rights, with special focus on quickly securing results (often preliminary injunctions) with the most suitable strategy for each business need and to overturn at courts decisions from the Brazilian trademark office. During the last 5 years, Rafael also leaded the development and execution of a disruptive anticounterfeiting program to map the supply chains of counterfeiters and promote massive raids nationwide to break these comercial routes, resulting in millions of seized products for Daniel’s clients and dozens of millions in losses for counterfeit annually
Practice Areas
Litigation
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
Unfair Competition
Education
Bachelor of Law (LL.B) from the Rio de Janeiro State Federal University (UNIRIO) in 2008, with the dissertation “A Tutela Inibitória na Propriedade Industrial” (“The inhibitory claim for industrial property rights”).
Affiliations, Commissions and Collegiate
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Five Must-Have Tips for Expediting Trademark Lawsuits in Brazil
Civil processes and procedures in the Brazilian Courts have been increasingly expedited due to the digitalization of case files and the assignment...
Responding adeptly to Brazil’s trade mark system
Often clients, unaccustomed to Brazil, fret about the wrong problem, such as the backlog. Alternatively, they try to solve a problem with the wrong...
BRAZIL: Recent decisions issued by Rio de Janeiro’s Federal Court contribute to expedite rulings on judicial appeals from rejection of trademark applications
Judicial Appeals against PTO’s decisions in Brazil, especially when addressed to contest rejection of trademark applications, have always brought...
The remote work of Brazilian Courts during COVID-19 Pandemic
As in most countries, Brazil has been facing a severe confinement strategy as an attempt to slow down the spread of COVID-19. Basically, all...
Brazil: PTO’s Role Changes in Judicial Appeals Concerning its Decisions
In Brazil, the courts, rather than the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO), have the final say about the registration or cancellation of a...
Responding adeptly to Brazil’s trade mark system
Often clients, unaccustomed to Brazil, fret about the wrong problem, such as the backlog. Alternatively, they try to solve a problem with the wrong...