The Firm works proactively in the legal protection of industrial creations, distinctive symbols and copyrights. The advice we offer includes research, studies, planning and development of strategies to protect intangible assets and to defend them in administrative litigation and appeals. This area has vast trial experience in fighting the unlawful use of industrial and intellectual property.

We help our clients identify and protect their intangibles, potentialize their value, thus enhancing their commercial relevance and advising them on how to use their intellectual property assets correctly. We are specialists in protecting trademarks, franchises, patents, inventions, copyrights, industrial secrets, conserving rights and on oversight and defending and litigating intellectual property cases,

Our practice encompasses Mexico and abroad, most notably our experience in the United States, Canada, China, the European Community, the United Kingdom and Latin America. We also have an extensive network of other associate law firms in different countries.

• Trademarks

  Our Firm offers consulting and investigation services of distinctive symbols on record as well as the renewal and publication of all kinds of trademarks, trademark notices and tradenames. Our service includes classification of the product or service covered by the trademark and searching for phonetic and/or graphic identities to determine the feasibility of registration, by identifying identical or similar trademarks that could disqualify registration.
  
  Our services include protecting rights where our Firm assumes the responsibility of managing clients’ intangible assets as well as preparing use statements (in those cases required by the law governing these matters), monitoring applications to register trademarks that might encroach on our clients’ rights and in said case arguing opposition. They also include preparing all kinds of contracts and negotiations for granting or assigning licenses to third parties.

• Patents

  We provide the service of preparing technical analyses of industrial inventions to determine whether an invention the client wants to protect is patentable. We also give advice, prepare, submit and follow up on the required applications for registering utility patents, designs and industrial drawings.

• Copyrights

  Our copyright and neighboring rights service includes registering pictorial works and drawings, sculptures and other plastic arts, cartoons and comic books, architectural works, movies and other audiovisual works, radio and television programs, computer programs, photographs, works of art that include graphic designs and textiles, compilations with graphic and distinctive characteristics, phonograms and videogram.
  
  The Firm also provides the service of registering documents, powers of attorney, agency relationships, contracts, notarial instruments and bylaws of general partnerships. We may also search for title abstracts, marginal notes, marginal notes revoking powers of attorney, duplicates, corrections and opening alias declarations, including drafting all kinds of contracts governing the use of copyrights and neighboring rights.
  
  In the case of rights reserved for exclusive use, our services include obtaining prior authorized opinions about rights reserved for exclusive use by publications or periodicals, artistic names and the name of artistic groups, prior authorized opinions about movie characters, prior authorized opinions about publicity and advertisements, and the renewal of registered rights reserved by publications or periodicals, artistic names, fictional characters and for publicity and advertisements.

• Advisory Services for Franchises

  Legal advice for creating, developing and implementing franchises, related contracts, confidentiality agreements, manual agreements in gratuitous loan, software contracts, circular of franchise (COF), memorandum of intent, contracts, promissory agreements and others.
  
  Moreover, our services include protecting franchisor rights as well as solving any conflicts related to the franchise.
  
  Furthermore, our specialization in and practice of intellectual property issues include:
  
  

  • - Advisory services and protection of distinctive symbols

    • o Conventional trademarks

    • o Famous and notable trademarks

    • o Nonconventional trademarks

      • - Sounds

      • - Smells

      • - Commercial image

      • - Hologram marks

      • - Certification

    • o Denomination of origin and geographic indications

  • - Advisory services and protection of inventions

    • o Patents

    • o Industrial designs

    • o Utility patents

    • o Electronic circuit schematics

  • - Advisory services and protection of copyrights

    • o Works

    • o Reservation rights

    • o Neighboring rights

  • - Conservation of rights.

    • o Reservations

    • o Use statements

    • o Advice on the correct use of trademarks

  • - Oversight of distinctive symbols

    • o Opposition procedure

  • - Advisory services and defense of intellectual property rights

  • - Advisory services for franchise contracts

  • - Industrial secrets

  • - International intangible asset protection