Sofia Filgueiras

Sofia P. Filgueiras is a Legal Manager at the IIC Journal and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law since 2013. She holds an LL.M. from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, where her thesis focused on Legal Aspects of Marketing in Virtual Worlds.

• Education: Law from University of Porto and Heidelberg University
• Research: Copyright and data protection implications of digital developments

Research Interests: Trademark, competition, and copyright law, with a focus on data protection and media/IT law. Her work explores legal challenges in virtual environments, ownership of digital creations, and cross-border IP disputes.

Publications Trends: Recent works examine copyright ownership in virtual worlds, EU/Portuguese jurisprudence conflicts, and data protection in telecommunications. She contributes to legal encyclopedias and translates international case law.

Scientific Awards:

• Max Planck Institute doctoral scholarship (2008-2011)
• DAAD LL.M. scholarship (2006-2007)
• Erasmus scholarship (2004-2005)
• DAAD summer course scholarship (2003)
• Goethe-Institut intensive course scholarship (2002)

Professional Activities: Regular participant in legal informatics symposiums like IRIS Salzburg (2010) and Luso-Brazilian conferences on digital law (2011, 2012). She contributes to journals like GRUR Int and Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto.