Publications - Intellectual Property
Portugal: Law No. 7/2022 prohibits geo-blocking and discrimination practices in electronic sales to consumers in the autonomous regions
Law no. 7/2022, published on January 10, aims to prohibit geo-blocking and unjustified discrimination, as well as other forms of discrimination in online sales based, directly or indirectly, on the place of residence or establishment of the consumer…
Important changes in consumer protection laws: from sanctions for the use of absolutely prohibited clauses to additional information duties
Portuguese Decree-Law no. 109-G/2021 published on last December 10, proceeds with the partial transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/2161 into the Portuguese legal order and amends several consumer protection rules contained in different diplomas.…
Portugal: New consumer rights in the sale and purchase of digital services, contents and goods
Decree-Law 84/2021, dated October 18, has been published, regulating consumer rights in the sale and purchase of digital services, contents and goods and transposing Directives (EU) 2019/771 and (EU) 2019/770.
The five steps to help you protect and enforce your trademarks in Portugal
Post from Garrigues' Intellectual Property blog.
Portuguese Decree-Law no. 59/2021 regulates the applicable regime to the provision and dissemination of telephone lines for consumer contact
Decree-Law no. 59/2021 published on July 14 clarified and densified the rules to which the provision of telephone lines for consumer contact is subject.
Portuguese Law no. 32/2021 fixes the font size of standard contractual clauses
Portuguese Law no. 32/2021, published on May 27, foresees an obligation for standard terms to be written in a font size not inferior to 11 or to 2,5 millimeters and with a line spacing not inferior to 1,15 in order to allow consumers to have…
COVID-19: Changes to the rules on Portuguese advertising commercial practices with price reductions during the State of Emergency
Following Decree No. 3-A/2021 of 14 January which regulates the state of emergency decreed by the Portuguese President and in order to respond to the movement of people that was observed during the first days of the new confinement, the…