Wednesday 24 January 2018

Presentation and Table of Contents

Professional experience:
  • 12/2023-present: Legal Manager at the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, where I provide legal advice and support to the EACEA management as well as operational and horizontal units of the Agency in the framework of their activities
  • 10/2021-12/2023: Legal Adviser at the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, where I provide legal advice and support to the EACEA management as well as operational and horizontal units of the Agency in the framework of their activities.
  • 03/2016-09/2021: Legal Officer at the Central Intellectual Property Service of the European Commission (DG Joint Research Center, Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Unit), where I provide legal analysis of IP cases, contribute to raising awareness on IP among EC staff and provide contributions to policy formulation. In this function, amongst other activities, I was one of the officers responsible for the i) adoption of the CC BY 4.0 licence as one of the reuse implementing instruments, and ii) facilitation of the open source licensing and reuse of Commission software.
  • 10/2015-02/2016: Legal Researcher at KU Leuven CiTiP, where I worked in EU funded projects (FP7, Horizon 2020) relating to the legal aspects (privacy, security and intellectual property) of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).
  • 2015: Research Assistant at Queen Mary University of London (project 'Private Copying Exception and Copyright Levies', which involved the research and analysis of regional and national copyright laws to understand the configuration of private copying exceptions and associated levies or other compensation systems and their efficiency);
  • 10/2014-02/2015: Blue Book internship in the European Commission (DG GROW, Standards for Boosting Growth)
  • 09/2009-07/2013 - Lawyer (TMT & IP) at PLMJ - Sociedade de Advogados, R.L.;

Education:
  • 2013-2014: LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of Londo
  • 2011: Postgraduate Course in Intellectual Property Law, University of Lisbon, School of Law & APDI.
  • 2004-2009: Licenciatura, University of Lisbon, School of Law

Other Courses:
  • 2021: 'DL-303 Specialized Course on the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks', offered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Academy.
  • 2020-2021: EUIPO Trade Mark and Design Education Programme
  • 2020: 'DL-511 Software Licensing including Open Source', offered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Academy.
  • 2018: CopyrightX, a twelve-week networked course that is offered annually under the auspices of Harvard Law School, the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. 
  • 2017: IVIR International Copyright Law Summer Course (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam). 
  • 2011: 'DL-101 General Course on Intellectual Property', offered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Academy.

PLMJ

KU Leuven

My main professional and academic interest are in the field of Intellectual Property Law (particularly copyright and trade marks law) and EU law.

Thursday 9 April 2015

Publications

Last Update: 2 July 2020


Peer-reviewed Journals
  • 'Consumer 3D Printing: Is the UK Copyright and Design Law Framework Fit for Purpose?' (2016) 6(3) QMJIP 321 - Link.
  • 'CJEU issues reasoned order on Communication to the Public (Case C-151/15)', (2016) 11 (1) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 9 - Link.
  • 'A new private copying law for Portugal', (2015) 10 (9) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 667 - Link.
  • 'Exhaustion without Exasperation: Intellectual Property, Parallel Imports and Border Measures' (2015) 1 QMJIP 87 - Link.
Peer-reviewed Journals - Book Reviews
    • Book review 'The Parody Exception in Copyright Law Sabine Jacques, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 141–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpz168.
    • 'Book review: Non-Conventional Copyright – Do New and Atypical Works Deserve Protection? Edited by Enrico Bonadio and Nicola Lucchi (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), 520 pp.' (2019) 9(3) QMJIP 351–355 - Link.
    • 'Book Review: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society: Thinking and Rethinking Intellectual Property' (2016) 4 QMJIP 534 - Link.
    • 'Book review: Orly Lobel (ed), Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding (Yale University Press, 2013) 288 pp,' (2014) 2 QMJIP 163 - Link.

    Project Deliverables
    • Deliverable 4.2.1 Project ‘Mediatrust’, Mix-ICON: Coene, Björn; Holst, Karel; Janssens, Marie-Christine; Malaquias, Pedro, 'Analysis of the scope of intellectual property protection as an instrument to control the value chains relating to media content', November 2015 - Link.
    • Deliverable 41.6 Project ‘FutureID’: Schroers J., Cuijpers C., Obersteller H., Malaquias P., 'Legal analysis of the FutureID Broker', October 2015 - Link.
    • E. Schlehahn, A. Delvaux & P. Malaquias, “VALCRI Legal, Ethical and Privacy Guidelines”, 2015. 

    Online Repositories
    • 'Predictive Policing and the Need for a Public Security Exception Under Copyright Law: The Belgian Example', SSRN, 24 August 2016 - Link.
    • 'The 3d Printing Revolution: An Intellectual Property Analysis', SSRN, 8 August 2014 - Link.

    Magazines
    • World Trade Mark Review: 'Dispute over exclusive right to use 'the Portuguese liqueur' heats up', 29 Mary 2013 - Link.
    Blog Posts
    KU Leuven CiTiP Blog
    • 'The Proposal for a Regulation on cross-border portability of online content' - Link.


      Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property Blog
    • 'New CJEU reference on linking and streaming' - Link.
    • 'ECTA Round Table on 3D Printing and IPRs – Update on the Trade Marks Legislative Package (Event Review – Part II)' - Link.
    • 'ECTA Round Table on 3D Printing and IPRs – Update on the Trade Marks Legislative Package (Event Review – Part I)' - Link.
    • 'The EU Copyright Law Reform: Moving Towards Digitisation (Event Review)' - Link.
    • 'Spanish ancillary right over news content leads Google to terminate News in Spain' - Link.
    • 'Trade Marks and Designs: The Designers’ Perspective – Event Review' - Link.
    • 'Are moral rights human rights? Event Review – Part I' - Link.
    • 'Case C-466/12 Svensson – CJEU saves the Internet' - Link.

    MARQUES Class 46


    o 'Portugal: INPI - New fees for trade marks' (article date 19/06/2015) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: 2014 Statistical Indicators - All-time High for National Trade Marks' (article date 28/05/2015) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: Kit Kat shape trade mark limitations' (article date 14/04/2015) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: CR (Cristiano Ronaldo) hits the post' (article date 28/11/2014) - Link.
    '.PT Domains - registration of domains with two characters' (article date 27/10/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: Karting Algarve' (article date 27/08/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: Porto loses to Silmoda in overtime' (article date 24/08/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: a tale of two T’s' (article date 18/07/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: three-dimensional marker gets trade mark protection' (article date 17/07/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: Salsa - well-known, but not prestigious' (article date 16/07/2014) - Link.
    o '.PT Domain Name Registration - New Rules' (article date 02/07/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: procedural issues on appealing TM decisions to court - II' (article date 16/06/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: Court of Appeal protects unregistered trade mark' (article date 02/06/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: procedural requirements for IP applications - new regulation' (article date 10/03/2014) - Link.
    o 'BoA: Parobook v Facebook' (article date 18/02/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: Court of Appeal grants trade mark protection to ‘Day-to-Day-Kitchen’ (article date 15/02/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: With so many "GEO"s, one more will not make a difference' (article date 15/02/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: WEBFÉRIAS = DOUBLEMINT' (article date 14/02/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: pocket protection' (article date 04/02/2014) - Link.
    o 'PORTUGAL: DIO-what?' (article date 03/02/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: Guidelines on the application of the Portuguese Industrial Property Code - III' (article date 01/02/2014) - Link.
    'PAOLA vs. VILLA PAOLA – Wine vs. Rum' (article date 30/01/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: Zambon v Zumbin = Zambin?' (article date 29/01/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: 2013 Statistical Indicators' (article date 27/01/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: procedural issues on appealing trade mark decisions to court' (article date 16/01/2014) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: Active gasoline v. active lubricants, industrial oils and greases' (article date 13/01/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: 360º is devoid of distinctiveness' (in relation to electric toothbrushes) (article date 13/01/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: Winhouse loses – the EU flag cannot be part of a trade mark' (article date 07/01/2014) - Link.
    'Portugal: Lack of legitimacy, Unfair Competition or Bad faith? (article date 01/11/2013) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: INPI grants BAVARIA trade mark registration' (article date 01/11/2013) - Link.
    'Portugal: INPI - New fees for trade mark related acts' (article date 02/07/2013) - Link.
    'Portugal: Guidelines on the application of the Portuguese Industrial Property Code - II' (article date 11/06/2013) - Link.
    'Portugal: Guidelines on the application of the Portuguese Industrial Property Code - I' (article date 05/06/2013) - Link.
    'Portugal: dispute over liquors - the second chapter' (article date 10/05/2013) - Link.
    'Portugal: the creation of an IP Court - VI' (article date 06/03/2013) - Link.
    'Lusophone Trade Mark: First the CTM, then the SES and now the LTM?' (article date 26/02/2013) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: dispute over liquors' (article date 10/02/2013) - Link.
    'Portugal: the creation of an IP Court - V' (article date 01/12/2012) - Link.
    'Portugal: Certified Copies of Trade Marks Registrations are made available online freely' (article date 19/09/2012) - Link.
    'Scam Warning: fake correspondence sent on behalf of INPI' (article date 04/09/2012) - Link.
    'ARBITRARE with new administration' (article date 26/07/2012) - Link.
    'Portugal: genuine use in trade marks covering TV programs' (article date 28/04/2012) - Link.
    'Portugal: the creation of an IP Court - IV' (article date 30/03/2012) - Link.
    'Portugal: the creation of an IP Court - III' (article date 01/03/2012) - Link.
    'New regulations for registration of .PT Domains' (article date 29/02/2012) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: Implementation of Project Seniority' (article date 12/10/2011) - Link.
    'Portugal: IMUNID vs. IMMUNIQ' (article date 07/10/2011 @ 11:53 hrs) - Link.
    'Portugal - Sound Mark with electronic audio file: First Electronic Filling' (article date 16/09/2011) - Link.
    'Portugal: INPI - New fees for trade mark related acts' (article date 05/07/2011) - Link.
    'Portugal: the creation of an IP Court - II' (article date 29/06/2011) - Link.
    o 'Portugal: CORIÉGUS v. COPEGUS' (article date 11/05/2011) - Link.
    'Portugal: the creation of an IP court' (article date 25/03/2011) - Link.
    o '2010 Trade Mark applications in Portugal' (article date 08/03/2011) - Link.
    'Portugal: Notaries are now entitled to promote IP related acts before the INPI' (article date 26/01/2011) - Link.
    · PatLit: the patent litigation weblog
    'Portugal redefines scope of patent infringement, dispute resolution with new medicines law', 24 December 2011 - Link.
    · The 1709 Blog
    'Portuguese pub ruling: no need for licence for extra speakers', 5 January 2014 - Link.

    Law Firm Newsletters
    • 'Industrial Property Disputes: Reference and Generic Medicines', December 2011 - Link.
    • Litígios em Propriedade Industrial: Medicamentos de referencia e genéricos - Link.
    • 'Critérios de cálculo das compensações por cessação de contrato de trabalho', October 2011 - Link.
    • 'Patente Europeia com Efeito Unitário - Desenvolvimentos Recentes', May 2011 - Link.
    • 'Patente Unitária', December 2010 - Link.

      Public Speaking, Trainings and Presentations


      Last update: 15 November 2021.

      • "Management of the intellectual property of the European Commission (30 September 2021, webinar) / with W. Verburg;
      • "Creative Commons licences" (10 June 2021, webinar);
      • "Intellectual Property: Creative Commons and the Reuse Decision" (16 March 2021, webinar);
      • "Management of the intellectual property of the European Commission (25 February 2021, webinar) / with W. Verburg, S. Gentille;
      • "Intellectual Property risk management for managers" (29 September 2020, webinar) / with W. Verburg;
      • "Intellectual Property: Creative Commons and the Reuse Decision" (10 March 2020, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Creative Commons licences" (03 March 2020, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "IP for Managers" (11 December 2019, Ispra, Italy) / with W. Verburg;
      • "Databases & Software. Copyright related issues"(11 November 2019, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Creative Commons licences and the Reuse Decision" (03 October 2019, Luxembourg);
      • "Creative Commons licences and the Reuse Decision" (23 September 2019, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Software and Intellectual Property" (21 June 2019, Brussels, Belgium);
      • Speaker in the 'Annual Information Seminar for the EU Agencies', delivering the presentation "Creative Commons (CC) - an open licence under the EC reuse policy - The impact on the EU materials published on the web" (4 April 2019, Luxembourg);
      • "Creative Commons" (19 March 2019, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Introduction to IPR: in particular, copyright" (19 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium)
      • "Creative Commons" (5 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Copyright, Social Media and Creative Commons" (3 December 2018, Luxembourg) / with I. Georgieva;
      • "Creative Commons" (18 September 2018, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Intellectual Property in Procurement" (27 June 2018, Luxembourg);
      • "Intellectual Property in Procurement" (26 June 2018, Brussels, Belgium);
      • Speaker in the "Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Open Day 2018" (7 June 2018, Ispra, Italy);
      • "Software and Intellectual Property Law" (6 June 2018, Luxembourg);
      • Speaker in the "Seminar on IP rights in the context of IP tools and contractual conditions" delivered to the EUIPO (31 May 2018, Alicante, Spain);
      • "Copyright and Image Rights" (20 March 2018, Brussels, Belgium)
      • "Software and Intellectual Property Law" (13 March 2018, Brussels, Belgium);
      • Speaker in the 'Training Seminar for European Documentation Centres', presenting 'Legal Basis of EU document handling I: Copyright' (5 October 2017, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Creative Commons" (26 September 2017, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Databases & Software: copyright related issues" (27 June 2017, Brussels, Belgium);
      • ''IP in Procurement for the financial officers" (07 April 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany);
      • ''Software and Copyright" (06 April 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany);
      • ''Introduction to Intellectual Property for the JRC staff" (06 April 2017, Karlsruhe, Germany);
      • "Intellectual Property for Community Managers" (30 March 2017, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Software and Intellectual Property Law" (14 March 2017, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Intellectual Property in Procurement" (24-25 January 2017, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "How to Obtain Intellectual Property Rights to Use Third-Parties' Works" (5 December 2016, Luxembourg, Luxembourg);
      • ''IP in Procurement Contracts for the financial officers" (12 October 2016, Petten, The Netherlands);
      • ''Introduction to Intellectual Property for the JRC staff" (12 October 2016, Petten, The Netherlands);
      • "How to Obtain Intellectual Property Rights to Use Third-Parties' Works" (3 October 2016, Brussels, Belgium);
      • "Training on Copyright and Image Rights" (25 May 2016, Brussels, Belgium) / w M Iglesias;
      • Speaker in ECOSSIAN Technical Meeting, presenting "ECOSSIAN Legal, Ethical and Social Foundations" (12 February 2016, Villach, Austria) - Link;
      • Speaker in the 'Seminar on Enterprise and Industry Policies for Eastern Partner Countries', presenting 'Standardisation to support industrial policy and innovation' (24 February 2015, Brussels, Belgium);
      • Speaker in the Fourth IP International Congress QMUL CCLS-UAM ‘Contemporary Developments in IP Law‘, presenting ‘The CJEU case law on trade mark genericism: the Kornspitz case’ (13 June 2014, London, United Kingdom);
      • Speaker in the Meanwhile Use Workshops: Technology, presenting 'The patent protection in the UK and EU - from invention to protection' (19 March 2014, Croydon, United Kingdom).