Présentation

Patrícia Akester has been Of Counsel with Sérvulo Law Firm, Lisbon, since 2011, in Intellectual Property and Information Technology and has headed the Firm's Intellectual Property Clinic since 2015. She holds a PhD in Copyright Law and the Challenges of Digital Technology (Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, 2002). She has been Vice-President of the the Portuguese-Arab Institute for Cooperation (ILAC) since 2017, a member of the Board of Directors of the same Institute since 2016 and a member of the Advisory Council of Exputnik, International Business Accelerator, since 2014. She was the sole Scientific Organiser of the inaugural Almedina Intellectual Property Law Conference, in 2014. She has been an Associate with the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, since 2012, where she researched and taught between 2002 and 2011. She was President of the Portuguese Group of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI), between 2009 and 2011. She has been a member of the World Copyright Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 1998) updating team since 2009. She has been a member of the Bar Association of England and Wales, Lincolns Inn, as a Registered European Lawyer, since 2009, and a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1996. Inter alia, she recently published an Annotated Portuguese Copyright Law (commissioned by Editora Almedina and published in March 2017), Brief Reflections on Copyright Law: Present Challenges and Policy Needs, in What future for copyright law in the digital age (Lisbon, Guerra & Paz, 2016), Copyright Law in Macau (Legisiuris, 2015),Hyperlinks: Questions, answers and more questions, in Essays in honour of Professor José de Oliveira Ascensão (Coimbra, Almedina, 2015) and Copyright Law in Portugal, Portuguese-speaking African Countries (Lusophone Africa), European Union and International Treaties (Coimbra, Almedina, 2013).