Caio
de Faro Nunes
São Paulo
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Areas of expertise
Experience
Extensive experience in intellectual property, digital law and technology. Expertise in complex disputes involving trademarks, trade dress, patents, copyrights, software, trade secrets, know-how, technology transfer agreements (including franchising) and publicity rights. Has also handled several online-related cases, involving matters such as content-removal, liability of online platforms, defamation, relationship between brands and influencers, processing of personal data, domain name disputes, intellectual property violations in the digital environment, among others. Strong experience in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as arbitration, mediation and negotiation.
Spent two years at leading foreign law firms in the US and Europe. Worked with digital law at the New York offices of White & Case, having also passed the New York Bar Exam. Also worked at Trevisan & Cuonzo Avvocati, an Italian boutique specializing in IP and innovation, having had close contact with recent European regulations that are changing the global landscape in tech law, such as the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
Academic formation
- LLM in Law & Technology from the University of California – Berkeley;
- Specialization in Intellectual Property and New Technologies from FGV Direito-SP;
- Specialization in Arbitration from FGV Direito-SP;
- Certificate in Data Protection from Data Privacy Brasil;
- Graduated in Law at Centro Universitário Curitiba (UniCuritiba), with an exchange program in International Law & Arbitration at the Catholic University of Milan.
- Passed the New York Bar Exam (registration pending);
- Creator and organizer of the 1st CSD-ABPI Moot – IP Arbitration Moot from the Brazilian IP Association;
- Has coordinated the study group on IP Arbitration from the CJA/CBMA (Brazilian Center of Arbitration and Mediation);
- Member of the IP Arbitraton and Mediation study group from the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr);
- Member of the WIPO ADR Young (group of Young professionals from the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center).
- Arbitragem em Propriedade Intelectual – Estudos Atuais, Quartier Latin (2024) – coordinator of the collective publication, in collaboration with Marcelo Mazzola, Ludmila Lago and Isabella Toscano.
- Arbitragem e Propriedade Intelectual no Brasil: em que pé estamos?. In: Arbitragem 2 Mundos: Diálogos entre Brasil e Portugal. Quartier Latin/Canal Arbitragem (2024);
- Did I Really Anonymize that Data? The Controversial Italian Decision on the THIN Case, Lexology/Italy IP Blog (2023);
- CJEU Lands Groundbreaking Decision on Data Protection and Antitrust, Lexology/Italy IP Blog (2023);
- Arbitragem e Propriedade Intelectual: Desafios, Vantagens e Tendências. In: Estudo e Prática da Arbitragem, Almedina (2023) – co-authorship Wilson Jabur;
- What is the Meaning of “Unfair Competition”? Reflections in Light of Epic Games v. Apple, Berkeley Technology Law Journal Blog (2022);
- Mediação, Segredos de Negócio e Proteção ao Software: Reflexões à Luz do Filme ‘A Rede Social’. In: A Propriedade Intelectual na Visão do Cinema, v. 2, Editora Lumen Juris (2022) – co-authorship Wilson Jabur
- Influenciadores Digitais e o Uso de Imagem no E-Commerce. In: Aspectos Jurídicos do E-Commerce, Thompson Reuters (2022) – co-authorship Wilson Jabur;
- IP Arbitration in Brazil: What is the Current Scenario? Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2020);
- Por que Arbitragem no Agronegócio? In: Arbitragem no Agronegócio (2018) – co-authorship Luciano Timm;
- Lessons from Brazil: Innovation in the Enforcement of Arbitral Interim Measures, Young Arbitration Review (2018) – co-authorship Duncan Speller;
- A Arbitragem aos Olhos do Judiciário Brasileiro, JOTA (2016).
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