Name
Licks Attorneys
Description
Licks Attorneys is a long-standing Brazilian law firm with over 350 members and the largest and most successful patent litigation practice in the country, covering disputes across all technologies. Among its partners with over 30 years of practice, the firm has seasoned trial and appellate attorneys, former patent judges, ambassadors, senior BRPTO and WIPO personnel. Licks Attorneys is the only Brazilian law firm in the country's standard setting organization, ABTN. It is also the only law firm equipped with 4G and 5G testing labs and actively participating in global standard setting efforts before ITU and 3GPP (without voting rights). The firm has the highest number of partners and scientific experts dedicated to the ICT sector and has handled almost all telecom-related patent litigation in Brazil. Licks Attorneys is the only Brazilian law firm representing SEP owners in adjudication campaigns before national courts, working in more than 70 cases over the past 13 years. The firm is proud of its 93.47% success rate in obtaining preliminary injunctions (PIs) on behalf of its clients and has successfully defended all SEP challenges and invalidation attempts to this date. In 2025, among others, the firm secured landmark decisions for global SEP players, such as European companies, including the global settlement in Ericsson v. Motorola and Lenovo after a favorable finding of infringement of 5G SEPs and the preliminary injunction granted in Nokia v. Asus. The firm has also obtained Brazil’s first preliminary injunctions functioning as an exclusion order on behalf of Huawei against MediaTek and the first IoT PI granted against an automaker, in IP Bridge v. BYD, which led to another global settlement. A merit-based PI granted after an expert report led to a global license on the very same day for JVC v. Hisense and Multilaser. PIs were granted for Interdigital v. Disney, ZTE v. Samsung, Dolby v. Transsion and NEC v. HMD. Global settlements were reached for Nokia v. Amazon, DivX v. Hisense, Toshiba and Multilaser, Eyesmatch v. Samsung, Adeia v. Disney, Nokia v. Hisense, JVC v. Hisense, JVC v. Transsion and Philips v. Transsion.
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