Pedro Sousa e Silva and Nuno Sousa e Silva lectured in the Fashion Law Postgraduate Course organised by the Porto School of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University (2024/2025). Pedro Sousa e Silva spoke about copyright and design law a. Nuno Sousa e Silva taught the modules on unfair competition, trade mark law and e-commerce.
On October 3rd, Nuno Sousa e Silva took part in the 11th Consumer Protection Day, organized by the European Supervisory Authorities, on a panel entitled “Artificial Intelligence in the financial sector: empowering consumers in the digital era”.
Pedro Sousa e Silva and Nuno Sousa e Silva lectured as part of the 15th Postgraduate Course in Intellectual Law organised by the Portuguese Intellectual Law Association in partnership with the University of Lisbon Law School between January and June 2024. Pedro Sousa e Silva addressed the design regime and intellectual rights litigation. Nuno Sousa e Silva taught the module on unfair competition, advertising and acts of exploitation and the workshop on copyright in action in Portuguese, European, and Brazilian courts.
Nuno Sousa e Silva published an article with the title “The new East Timor Copyright Law” in the 1st Edition of the European Intellectual Property Law Review 2024, in January. The text addresses the main aspects of the East Timorese Copyright Code of 2022
Pedro Sousa e Silva wrote an article in the collective work “Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor António Pinto Monteiro” [Stvdia Ivridica, no. 112, Vol. I] with an article entitled “Reparation of Damage for Intellectual Rights Infringement”. The text explores the criteria for awarding and quantifying compensations for damages resulting from the violation of industrial property rights and copyright and related rights.
As part of the 6th Intellectual Property Congress, which took place in Lisbon on 19 and 20 October, Pedro Sousa e Silva presented a paper on the reform of the design regime in the EU. Nuno Sousa e Silva took part in the panel on the reform of Portuguese copyright law (a new copyright code?) and in the panel on the relationship between copyright, personality rights and deepfakes.