Our Team

Highly trusted, client-focused

Our award-winning and international team of attorneys have a wide range of technical backgrounds and extensive experience in a number of fields, both in-house and in private practice. The safety of your rights are our priority, and so we utilise some of the most advanced case management and deadline monitoring systems on the market.

Filipe Funenga

Patent attorney

Hired in 2015. Qualified official Portuguese IP-agent. Registered European trademark and design attorney.

As a qualified patent attorney, Filipe has extensive experience in all matters related to patent protection and its internationalization. He has assisted numerous inventors in navigating every stage of the patenting process, both domestically and abroad.

Before joining Håmsø, Filipe worked as a patent attorney at Clarke, Modet & Co. in Lisbon and as a scientific researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics in Lisbon.

Filipe's main legal areas of expertise are computer-implemented, electrical, and mechanical inventions.

Filipe holds an MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Expertise
Computer science, electronics and automation.
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Patents

Patents protect the technical aspects of an invention, including what they are, how they work, and what they do.
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Trademarks

Registered trade marks are used to protect brand names, logos, slogans, and even distinctive sounds and smells associated with a company or product.
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Designs

Registered designs protect the physical appearance of a product. This includes the shape, configuration, pattern, or ornamentation that gives the product a unique appearance.
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