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Nuno Pires de Carvalho joined Licks Attorneys as a partner, in 2016, to strengthen the firm’s IP, Policy Making and Competition practices. Before joining Licks Attorneys, he was the Director of the Intellectual Property and Competition Policy Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Geneva, Switzerland. In his 16-year tenure at WIPO’s International Bureau, he acted in three main areas: protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources, legislative assistance to a significant number of developing countries as regards the implementation of TRIPS-related obligations in the field of industrial property as well as to implement their obligations under multilateral, and free trade agreements and the interface between intellectual property and competition law and policy.
In addition, Mr. Carvalho was a Counselor with the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, for three years (1996-1999). In that capacity, he assisted the TRIPS Council and helped developing countries to implement their TRIPS obligations. In his Brazilian practice, Mr. Carvalho was the in-house attorney in charge of intellectual property matters of a Nippo-Brazilian steel company, USIMINAS, based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, for 20 years (1976-1995). Since 2019, Mr. Carvalho has been a member of the International Advisory Board of the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property.
Mr. Carvalho is known worldwide for his work as a published author of several books, chapters of books and articles on Intellectual Property. His last four publications, with Wolters Kluwer, consist of sourcebooks that explain how Intellectual Property has evolved, and continues evolving since Antiquity to today in various fields such as medicines, textiles, fashion, food, and hospitality. He is also a novelist and published poet. His literary works are available at the Kindle Store.
Mr. Carvalho holds an LLM degree and a SJD degree from the Law School of Washington University in St. Louis (MO, USA). He also holds a JD degree, an LLM degree, and an SJD degree from the Law School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil).
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