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Rafaella Oliveira
Head of Patent Practice
Rafaella Oliveira is a Chemist and Patent Specialist at Licks Attorneys’ Rio de Janeiro off ice since 2019. Ms. Oliveira has been working with Intellectual Property since 2009 and her expertise covers all aspects related to the prosecution of patent applications at the Brazilian PTO, with emphasis on patent applications in the chemical field. Ms. Oliveira acts analyzing and reporting technical opinions issued by the Brazilian PTO, preparing petitions to comply/contest said technical opinions, preparing third party observations, performing prior art searches and draft ing patent applications, performing equivalent searches for BR applications as well as Freedom-tooperate (FTO) searches, preparing patent landscaping and technical opinions to support case laws. Ms. Oliveira has knowledge of the Brazilian IP law, normative instructions and examination guidelines issued by the Brazilian PTO, as well as the main intellectual property treaties.
- Portuguese
- English
- Patents
- Prosecution
- Food & Drug
- Life Sciences
- Patents
- Prosecution
- Food & Drug
- Life Sciences
- Regulatory
- Leaders League – Patent Prosecution (2023);
- Speaker at VIII ENAPID 2015 e V ProspeCT&I 2015, wherein the work entitled “LANDSCAPING OF THE PROCESSES OF THE USE OF BIOGAS AS SOURCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY” was considered the best work of the session of Energy & Fuels & Environment. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015.
- Member of the Regional Council of Chemistry – CRQ-III/RJ.
- Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Fluminense FederalUniversity (UFF), 2016.
- Degree in Industrial Chemistry from the Fluminense Federal University(UFF), 2011.
- Sequence Listings In Divisional Applications – A Comparison Between The EPO and Brazilian Patent Office, Kluwer Patent Blog, 2023;
- Como ter sucesso ao emendar reivindicações durante o exame de patentes no Brasil, Decisor Brasil, 2023;
- Brazil: how to successfully amend claims during patent examination, Kluwer Patent Blog, 2023;
- Post-filing experimental evidence: how to obtain patents in Brazil?, Kluwer Patent Blog, 2022;
- “Brazil: The BRPTO and the DKPTO signed an agreement in order to Expedite the prosecution of patent applications”. Mondaq, 2018;
- “Brazil: Correction of the term of protection foreseen in the sole paragraph of art. 40 of theBrazilian IP Law”. Mondaq, 2016;
- “Monitoramento tecnológico dos processos de aproveitamento do biogás como fonte de energia renovável”. Cad. Prospec., Salvador, v. 8, n. 4, p. 720-730, out./dez. 2015;
- “The current scenario of mailbox patents in Brazil”. C5 Communications, 2013.
