António Andrade

António Andrade has been a partner at Abreu Advogados since 2019, working predominantly on all matters related to intellectual property law.

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.

António has extensive experience in prosecution of all types of intellectual property 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 Copyright 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.

He has been recognised for many years in the main international directories, such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and IP Stars. Since 2015 Who’s Who Legal has described him as one of the world’s leading patents lawyers and leading trademark lawyers.

Winner of the award “Best Lawyer of the Year 2020 in Intellectual Property” – “Best Lawyers”.