António Magalhães Cardoso, partner at Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA), responsible for the Intellectual Property area of practice, was one of the guest speakers at the VI Forum organized by the Portuguese Association of Industrial Property Consultants (Associação Portuguesa dos Consultores de Propriedade Industrial) which was dedicated to "Trademarks and Patents - challenges ahead". The event took place at the Lisbon's Commercial Association (ACPI - Associação Comercial de Lisboa)'s premises on the 22 November and the opening speech was delivered by ACPI's President of the Board of Directors, César Bessa Monteiro.

António Magalhães Cardoso approached issues regarding "Patents and generic drugs in Portugal".