Carolina Mendes

Attorney At Law

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Attorney at Law

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Carolina Mendes joined Licks Attorneys’ Rio de Janeiro office as a paralegal in 2017 and became an attorney at law in 2020. Ms. Mendes’ practice focuses on complex litigation in intellectual property law, including patent infringement and patent validity, especially concerning the telecommunication and pharmaceutical industries. She has also experience with administrative proceedings before government agencies, such as the Brazilian PTO (INPI). In 2022, Ms. Mendes was featured as a speaker on panels concerning online hearings both at the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/RJ) and the Rio de Janeiro State Attorney’s Office (PGE-RJ).

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+ Languages

Portuguese
English
German

+ Practice Areas

Intellectual Property
Licensing & Technology
Litigation
Patents
Prosecution
Trademark, Trade Dress & Publicity Rights
Transfer
Unfair Competition

+ Representative Cases

+ Professional Highlights

+ Representative Experience

+ Affiliations

Brazilian Bar Association – Rio de Janeiro Section (OAB/RJ);
Member of the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law (IBDP);
Member of the Collective Civil Procedure Law Committee, Federal Judicial School for the Second Circuit (EMARF).

+ Education

Post Doctoral candidate in Law (focus of study: Procedural Law), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ);
PhD in Procedural Law, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), 2024;
Master’s Degree in Procedural Law, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), 2022;
Bachelor of Laws, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), 2020.

+ Publications

Biotechnology/pharma patent litigation in Brazil: an update on preliminary injunctions, Kluwer Patent Blog, 2022;
Co-author of book “Temas de direito processual: nona série”, in which she contributed with comments to update the original texts of José Carlos Barbosa Moreira, 2024;
Co-author of article “A vinculação do árbitro aos precedentes judiciais e o cabimento da ação anulatória de sentença arbitral” (about the binding of the arbitrator to judicial precedentes and the admissibility of the action to annul an arbitral award), published in Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, 2024;
Co-author of article “Acesso à justiça: em busca de um processo efetivo” (about the access to justice and effectiveness), published in Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, 2023;
Co-author of article “Direito Processual Romano” (Roman Procedural Law), published in Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, 2023;
Co-author of article “O Acesso à Justiça (Digital) na Justiça Contemporânea” (about the access to digital justice), published in Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, 2023;
Co-author of book “Estudos em Homenagem a Cândido Rangel Dinamarco”, to which she contributed with the article “Direito Processual Comparado, Teoria Geral do Processo e Precedentes” (Comparative Procedural Law, Theory of Procedural Law and Precedents), 2022;
Co-author of article “As Class Actions e as Últimas Mudanças na Regra 23 do Estatuto Processual Federal Norte-Americano” (Class Actions and the changes to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure), published in Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, 2021;
Co-author of book “Ação Civil Pública após 35 anos”, to which she contributed with the article “Reflexões para o direito processual coletivo no panorama mundial e nacional do século XXI à luz das recentes reformas nas class actions norte-americanas” (about the consequences of the American class action reforms), 2020;
Co-author of book “O novo processo civil brasileiro: temas relevantes – estudos em homenagem ao professor, jurista e ministro Luiz Fux: volume 1”, to which she contributed with an article about collective procedural law in the Code of Civil Procedure of 2015, 2018;
Co-author of article “O Direito Processual Coletivo e o Novo Código de Processo Civil”, published in Revista da EMERJ, 2018.

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