Innovation plays an increasingly essential and strategic role in an economy where new businesses emerge every day. The creative process itself is as important to business success as its appropriate legal protection. Being attentive to this, Sperling Advogados is well prepared to advise clients on various forms of protection of intellectual creations, providing assistance ranging from the area of patents and trademarks to cultivars and biotechnology. We also understand that the defence in court of intellectual property rights is a fundamental point for the appropriate protection of the creations of companies.

• Know-how: drafting, review and negotiation of technology transfer agreements and confidentiality clauses, and advising clients on the definition of the most suitable strategy for protecting secrets within the company, whether by reviewing internal procedures and forms, or in the defence of clients in unfair competition lawsuits, among others;
• Patents: protection and management of patent portfolios, advisory and litigation assistance, as well as consulting on alternative dispute resolution methods (mediation and arbitration) involving patent infringement, assignment agreements and licensing agreements;
• Industrial Drawings: review of the most appropriate strategy for the protection of creation (industrial design, copyrights, three-dimensional trademarks, patents), advisory and litigation assistance, as well as consulting on alternative dispute resolution methods (mediation and arbitration) involving infringements, ADRs and contracts;
• Assistance in the obtaining of Geographical Indications;
• Trademarks: protection and management of trademark portfolios, development of defence and protection strategies, advisory and litigation assistance, as well as consulting on alternative dispute resolution methods (mediation and arbitration) involving trademark infringement, assignment agreements and licensing agreements;
• Domain Names: defence procedures – UDRP (domain name dispute resolution policy), procedures before OMPI/WIPO and SACI-Adm, infringement notices, implementation of provisional remedies before Registro.br (cancellation, freezing, transfer);
• Copyrights: drafting, review and negotiation of assignment, licensing and economic exploitation agreements, advising on the protection and exploitation of collective and audio-visual works, ECAD, collection of collective copyrights, literary, musical, fashion and decoration, architectural and engineering works, as well as copyrights in the digital environment;
• Cultivars/Biotechnology: protection, licensing, variety development agreements, advisory and litigation assistance, as well as consulting on alternative dispute resolution methods (mediation and arbitration).