About Joana Piriquito Santos

Joana Piriquito Santos is a lawyer, pharmacist, and Portuguese patent and trade mark attorney, active in IP since 2010. Prior to co-founding NLP, her career included roles as an innovation manager, IP consultant, and patent/supplementary protection certificate examiner at the Portuguese Industrial Property Office. Joana is currently handling complex patent litigation matters for global pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies before Portuguese courts and the Unified Patent Court, as well as providing strategic IP advice for tech firms in the context of M&A transactions. She holds a law degree from the University of Lisbon and an integrated master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Coimbra.