Inês Carvalho Simões holds a degree in law and two postgraduate diplomas in IP law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She has been a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1996 and is a Specialist Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law, a title awarded by the Bar Association. She is a Portuguese Official Industrial Property Agent and joined J Pereira da Cruz in 2000.
Inês specialises in advising companies on trademark and brand protection requirements. She has particular expertise in advising clients with multiple brand portfolios. She also has extensive knowledge of many jurisdictions across the world, and can advise and support clients comprehensively on geographical expansion plans for the protection of their rights.
She is responsible for the Portuguese trademark opposition department and has been working in trademark prosecution and related intellectual property fields since 2000. She specialises in the management of trademark portfolios, prosecution of Portuguese, European Union and international marks and coexistence arrangements, as well as litigation cases.
Inês combines more than 20 years of experience across all stages of the trademark life cycle and works with clients from local start-ups to large multinational corporations. Her trademark practice consists primarily of procurement, oppositions and cancellation proceedings, appeals, management, strategic counselling and enforcement.
She is a member of the major IP organisations, including ACPI (Portuguese Association of Intellectual Property Consultants), FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys), APRAM (Association of Practitioners in Trademark and Design Law), ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark Association) and UNION-IP (Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property).
Year Joined Firm: 2000
Network Memberships: ACPI, FICPI, APRAM, ECTA, UNION-IP
Last updated 2nd November 2020
