In the first week of September Gonçalo Maria Pinheiro Torres visited S. Tomé and Príncipe as a member of a World Intellectual Property Organization mission advising the São Tomé and Príncipe Government on Intellectual Property matters.
Nuno Sousa e Silva has just published the book "The Ownership Problems of Overlaps in European Intelellectual Property" by Nomos. The book addresses the cumulative protection by intellectual property rights and the ownership problems arising therefrom.
Pedro Sousa e Silva has written about the unitary patent and the unified patent court in the first issue of the Revista de Direito Intelectual. The text describes and analyses the forthcoming system of patent litigation in the European Union.
On the 12th Marche Janete Fernades obtained a Masters degree on Law and Management granted by the Catholic University of Portugal (Porto), with a thesis on the intersections between company law and accounting.
Nuno Sousa e Silva published the text "Uma introdução ao direito de autor europeu" ["An introduction to EU Copyright Law"] (in portuguese). The article presents the EU copyright system taking into account the most recente developments.
Nuno Sousa e Silva has written about the protection of semiconductor topographies, providing a critical analysis of its regime and questioning its existence.