Dutch 
Staff
Ana Ramalho
PhD-candidate
 
Instituut voor
Informatierecht (IViR)

Visiting address
Korte Spinhuissteeg 3
1012 CG Amsterdam

Postal address
Kloveniersburgwal 48
1012 CX Amsterdam
 
room B2.04

tel: +31 20 525 36 49

fax: +31 20 - 525 30 33
 


Curriculum Vitae
Ana studied law at the University of Lisbon, where she subsequently obtained her Research Master degree in Intellectual Property summa cum laude. She went on to take an LL.M. degree in Intellectual Property at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany.

Prior to joining IViR, she worked as a lawyer in Portugal. She was also an intern at WIPO (Geneva, Switzerland), a research fellow at the University of Alicante (Spain) and a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (Munich, Germany) and at Studio Ubertazzi (Milan, Italy).

She has been involved in a number of conferences related to the field of intellectual property, namely, as the rapporteur of EPO's conference on Disseminating IP Knowledge in Universities and as a co-coordinator of the Second Transatlantic IP Summer Academy.

Currently, Ana is a Ph.D. candidate at IViR. Her thesis will focus on the competences of the European Union in the field of copyright.
 


Publications
(ed. with C. Angelopoulos) Crossroads of Intellectual Property: the Intersection of Intellectual Property and other Fields of Law, New York: Nova Publishers, 2012.

See here the foreword of the book.

07.06.2012


Is secrecy the new black in IP?, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2012-5, p. 316-317.

Secrecy has been the motto of IP law, and treatymaking worldwide - but do policy makers in Europe have a legitimate basis in continuing such a trend?

A pre-edited version is available on the Kluwer Copyright Blog.

10.04.2012


Análise Económica da Proteção das Medidas Tecnológicas no Direito de Autor: Uma Visão Portuguesa (The Law and Economics of Protecting Technological Measures in Copyright: a Portuguese Viewpoint), Direito da Comunicação Social e Liberdade de Expressão, 2011-3, p. 107-133.

Table of contents (in English)

14.12.2011


Portugal – what will the future of private copying levies be?, GRUR International, 2011-11, p. 992.

08.11.2011


The European Union and ACTA - Or Making Omelettes without Eggs (Again), Opinion, IIC, 2011-1, p. 97-101.

The Anti-Counterfeiting  Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been cooking for some time now. Some ingredients to that dish are missing though - notably, a clear competence of the European Union. In fact, the Union's struggle for an expansion of its powers - especially in the area of harmonization of national laws with a basis on internal market considerations - has led some doctrine to express concerns whether the relevant provisions could give the EU carte blanche to harmonize in a wide variety of subjects. In the pre-Lisbon era, some authors have called this tendency "competence creep".

See also the Chinese translation.

08.03.2011


Portugal - Vorläufige Patentanmeldungen: Eine erfolgreiche Neuerung, GRUR International, 2009-10, p. 882.

29.10.2009


Intellectual Property and Social Justice, in: F. Columbus (ed.), Handbook of Social Justice, New York: Nova Publishers 2009.

15.09.2009


Parody in Trademarks and Copyright: Has Humour Gone Too Far?, Cambridge Student Law Review, 2009-1.

15.09.2009


Silent Ethics in the Mobile Phone Sector?  The Case of the 'por qué no te callas?' Ringtone, European Intellectual Property Review, 2009-4.

15.09.2009


Marks, Forfeiture and a Constitutional Conundrum, World Trademark Review, 18.

15.09.2009


Portuguese Supreme Court Sets New Boundaries for Compensation for Copyright Infringement, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2008-11, p. 687-688.

15.09.2009


The Legal Protection of Fashion under Design Law (in Portuguese), Direito Industrial, Vol. V, Almedina, Coimbra, 2008.

Table of contents (in English)

15.09.2009


 

Updated 06.11.2012