Patents in Brazil

Lynch & Kneblewski is a team of legal, science and business professionals to better serve the needs of our clients. The teams' key strength is experience and a cooperation built up over 20 years of working together. The technical and legal staff are backed by a rigorous and constantly updated administration system. Our Patent Professionals; attorneys, lawyers, technicians, biotechnologists and engineers are highly skilled and experienced in this area, which enables us to render the following services;

Preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications in Brazil for foreign clients, including entering the Brazil National Phase of PCT international patent applications.

• Conducting patent searches regarding novelty and/or infringement, including research at the Documentation Center of the National Institute of Industrial Property.
• Search and vigilance of patent violations and registrations by in Brazil. By adding your patents or areas of interest to our database, each week our examiners will check for patents applied for, granted or changed status during that week. We maintain searchable records for patents previously filed in Brazil.
• Preparing, or replying, to oppositions, appeals and requests for administrative cancellation. Legal opinions regarding patentability, validity and infringement of patents.
• General client counseling regarding agreements involving licensing and/or acquiring patent rights and the assignment, transfer and licensing of patents rights.
• Requesting compulsory licenses for exploiting patents.

The lawyer that will take care of your patent applications will be ROGER DE CASTRO KNEBLEWSKI - born São Paulo, Brazil, 1968; admitted to bar, 1995. Education: Law School of Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, 1994; and Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property agents, Member: Bar Association of the State of Sao Paulo; serves as an officer of ASPI, the Association of Intellectual Property Agents of Sao Paulo ABAPI, Association of Brazilian Intellectual Property - Languages: Portuguese. Practice Practice Areas: Litigation in all Intellectual Property areas.