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Budapest Treaty
The entry into force of Brazil’s accession to the Budapest Treaty represents a significant step forward for the country’s patent system and innovation ecosystem
Mediation is a powerful non-adversarial dispute resolution tool in which the mediator - an impartial third party – brings the mediating parties closer together and facilitates dialogue. In mediation, there are no losers and winners.
Unlike a court decision, which is imposed on the parties by the judge, in mediation the mediating parties themselves build the solution together, which affords greater legitimacy to the agreement reached.
In the area of industrial property, we are prepared to act in many situations that fit mediation perfectly, such as:
- commercial partners (licensor and licensee) in misalignment on certain points of the agreement (territorial exclusivity clause, value of royalties etc.);
- trademark disputes in which companies are not competitors, although the broad description of products and services suggests an indirect relationship or even overlapping activities;
- patent infringement lawsuits in which the author (inventor) seeks only compensation for the use of the invention, and not a restraining injunction to stop the violation;
- cases of violation of trade dress in which the concern of one of the parties is only to avoid the dilution of specific elements, without major financial repercussions.
