Felipe Oquendo has been an attorney at law at Licks Attorneys’ Rio de Janeiro office since 2024 and became a partner in 2025. Mr. Oquendo has worked as an IP litigator for more than 16 years, focusing on complex IP matters in patents, plant varieties, trademarks, designs, and unfair competition cases, mainly in the field of ICT, life sciences and mechanical Engineering.
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Felipe Oquendo
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- WIPR Leaders (2024);
- Leaders League – “Rising Star” – Brazil’s leading lawyers (nominated) (2021);
- Leaders League – “Rising Star” – Patent Litigation (2020).
- Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI);
- 3rd Vice-President of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC);
- Amicus Brief Committee of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI);
- Brazilian Bar Association – Rio de Janeiro (OAB/RJ).
- Master of Laws (LL.M), Corporate, Labor, and Industrial Property Law, Rio de Janeiro State University – UERJ (2014);
- Master of Laws (LL.M), Intellectual Property Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio (2012);
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B), Rio de Janeiro State University – UERJ (2009).
- Baxter – World Patent Law and Practice, Issue 167 – Brazilian chapter, 2022;
- Protection of IP Rights in Distribution in Brazil. In: Liability for Antitrust Law Infringements & Protection of IP Rights in Distribution, Springer, 2019;
- Legal Protection of Trade Secrets in Brazil. In: Abuse of Dominant Position and Globalization & Protection and Disclosure of Trade Secrets and Know-How, Springer, 2017;
- Originality as a requirement to provide registration of industrial design: grants for a better understanding of the Brazilian law. PIDCC Issue No. 07, 2014;
- Business name jurisdiction in Brazil: legislative developments and prospects, PIDCC Issue No. 07, 2014;
- Invalidation of trademark registrations granted in violation of the principle of inherent distinctiveness: guidelines and aspects of civil procedural law. Revista Eletrônica do IBPI No. 6, 2012.