Marcelo Baptista
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION Marcelo Baptista
- ABOUTLANGUAGESPortuguese | EnglishEDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering
Universidade Federal de São Paulo2013 | UNIFESP | São PauloSpecialization in Biochemistry
Harvard Medical School2021 | HMXPostgraduate Degree in Intellectual Property Law
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro2023 | PUC | Rio de Janeiro - EXPERIENCEHighlights
Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents – ABAPI (Professional Training Course in Industrial Property, 2015).
Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents – ABAPI (Intermediate Patent Course, 2016).
Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents – ABAPI (Course on Judicial Expertise in the Area of Intellectual Property, 2020).
Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents – ABAPI (Advanced Patent Course, 2024).
- PRACTICE AREA
Marcelo is a Chemical Engineer specialized in Intellectual Property Law, with over 14 years of experience advising clients on Industrial Property matters, including Patents, Industrial Designs, Plant Variety Protection, and Software Registration.
Throughout his career, he has worked at leading Intellectual Property law firms in Brazil and within the intellectual property departments of multinational pharmaceutical companies, advising domestic and international clients across multiple technology sectors, particularly pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agrochemicals, oil and gas, metallurgy, biotechnology, industrial inputs, veterinary products, and agribusiness.
He has extensive experience supporting Research, Development and Innovation (R&D and RD&I) teams, including intellectual property training, patent database searching, technology intelligence, patent landscape analysis, and strategic advisory services.
His professional activities cover the full lifecycle of protection, management, and commercialization of industrial property rights, including:
Rights Protection and Prosecution
- Drafting, filing, and prosecution of patent applications and industrial design registrations
- Preparation and prosecution of plant variety protection applications
- Software registration procedures
- Patentability, originality, and technical distinctiveness assessments
- Responses to office actions and administrative requirements
- Appeals and technical submissions before the Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial – INPI and foreign authorities
Strategy and Commercial Exploitation
- Freedom to Operate (FTO) analyses
- Infringement and non-infringement opinions
- Design-around strategies and risk mitigation
- Competitive and technological monitoring
- Strategic management of industrial property portfolios
Technical Contentious and Advisory Support
- Third-party submissions and examination support
- Technical opinions for administrative and judicial disputes
- Validity and enforceability assessments
- Technical support in intellectual property litigation
Marcelo also advises clients on strategies for protecting and leveraging intangible assets, supporting decision-making related to technology commercialization, regulatory and competitive risk mitigation, and strengthening technological market positioning.
