About Manuel Durães Rocha

Manuel Durães Rocha is a partner at Abreu Advogados and co-heads the IP team, working primarily in the areas of intellectual and industrial property and in the health and pharmaceuticals sector. Manuel is a qualified European patent attorney and European trade mark attorney before the EU Intellectual Property Office. He has more than 30 years’ experience in patent litigation and advises a range of Portuguese companies on life sciences matters, medical devices and luxury trade mark products – holding a unique track record in these matters in Portugal. Manuel, in association with an international law firm, represented the applicant in the first-ever case lodged at Lisbon’s Unified Patent Court.