The services provided by Arlindo de Sousa, include:

  • Registration feasibility analysis of an industrial property right;
  • Advice on appropriate means of protection;
  • Searches of anteriority in official databases of industrial property to assess the feasibility of the application for registration;
  • Preliminary research to determine the potential patentability of an invention;
  • Issuance of opinions;
  • Preparation and filing before the respective Official Institute of the application for registration/ protection (with elaboration of technical texts if needed);
  • Monitoring and management of the entire administrative process since the application up to the grant (as, for example, response to any official notifications and deadlines control);
  • Registration of Trademarks:
    • National
    • European
    • International
  • Registration of Logotypes
  • Registration of Geographic Indications
  • Patents
    • National
    • European
    • International
  • Utility Models:
    • National
    • International
  • Registration of Designs or Models
    • National
    • Community (within the European Union)
    • International
  • Litigation (in case of dispute);
  • Surveillance and maintenance of such rights after the grant (including the payment of official fees) to avoid caducity;
  • Recordals, assignments and licenses;
  • Surveillance which aims to detect third-party applications that may conflict with the industrial property rights of our Clients;
  • Technical translations;
  • Obtaining Admissibility Certificates at RNPC (CPNR)
  • Communication of trademarks to RNPC;
  • Expert's report;
  • Consultancy (know-how of three consecutive generations, with more than 80 years of experience)