I knew Vilage through indication of the company who developed my website. My business is new and I had no experience in the area, it started to grow and I was alerted by some people about the risk of not having my trademark registered, it took me a long time to understand that I had a large view of my business and no safety. Then it was easy, I contacted and received Vilage’s Director, who explained all legal issues to register the trademark and, the most interesting part, alerted me about other registrations totally unknown to me. My business is still growing, and today I am reassured with the support from Vilage.
Inês Ferreira Brito
Services
PATENT
Highly specialized engineers from Vilage itself go to the client to prepare
patents, ensuring complete safety and confidentiality.
There are two types of patents:
Invention: granted for 20 years.
Utility model: granted for 15 years.
The protective scope of these patents is very wide and a simple change to a
detail will not allow third parties to violate it. Any product's conflict or
not requires the analysis of some aspects, such as: generated technical effect,
best use, useful purpose, etc.
In addition to the types of patents mentioned above, the Law saves the
Registration of Industrial Designs (granted for 10 years, extendable for over
15 years), which has for its purpose to protect exclusively the product's
design with the advantage the registration is granted by INPI in about six (06)
months.