António Andrade

António Andrade is a Partner at Abreu Advogados since 2019, working essentially in all matters related to intellectual property.

He has been particularly involved in court and arbitration litigation regarding patents (especially pharmaceutical patents), trade marks, designs, copyright and trade secrets, having built up experience over more than twenty years.

He has also advised a number of companies on intellectual property enforcement strategies and also on defending the validity of those rights.

He is a Specialist Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law (a title awarded by the Portuguese Bar Association) and a Patent, Trade Mark and Design Attorney. He is also a member of several national and international intellectual property organisations (ACPI, AIPPI, ECTA, FICPI, INTA, MARQUES, UNION-IP), having been the President of ECTA’s Design Committee (2010-2016). He is currently a member of ECTA’s Patent Committee, UNION-IP’s Litigation Commission and the International Chamber of Commerce’s PT Commission on Intellectual Property (ICC).

He has been a guest speaker and participant at many national and international congresses and seminars on intellectual property, and has published numerous articles and studies on intellectual property law at international level.

He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Science and Technology Faculty of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is a lecturer on the postgraduate course in Intellectual Law of the Faculty of Law of Lisbon and APDI.