Dr. Hugo Silva

Education:

• Chemical Engineer; Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal, 1967)
• Attorney at Law (Brazil, 1984).

Languages:

• Portuguese
• English
• French
• Spanish

Practice: Admitted in Brazil (1984). Patents, trademarks, designs, litigation, prosecution, licensing.

Hugo Silva & Maldonado

Hugo Silva & Maldonado is a full service patent, trademark and intellectual property law Firm engaged in all aspects of the Brazilian and international practice.

The Firm is composed exclusively of professionals duly registered, certified or admitted to practice before the related entities, such as the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Engineers (CREA), Bar Association and others.

The Firm consistently invests in security by modernising its methods and procedures as well as maintaining a state-of-the-art computerised system for searches, monitoring, docketing and accounting systems.

Depending on the project’s complexity and interconnection with other cases, members of the Firm work on individual assignments or integrated as a team, always supervised by a senior member.

To guarantee constant professional development, Hugo Silva & Maldonado’s members actively participate in conferences and seminars of domestic and international professional associations like INTA International Trademark Association, AIPP, AIPLA American Intellectual Property Law Association, LIDC International League of Competition Law, LES, ABPI Associação Brasileira de Propriedade Intellectual and ABAPI Associação Brasileira dos Agentes da Propriedade Industrial.

The Firm provides clients with informative communication by reporting the most recent changes and relevant aspects of Brazilian patent, trademark and intellectual property law, analysed in the light of current jurisprudence and intellectual property law trends worldwide.