AREAS WE SPECIALIZE IN

We provide legal protection for our clients’ industrial creations, distinctive signs and copyrighted works. Our work covers research, analysis, planning and strategy design to safeguard intangible assets, as well as their defense in administrative and litigation proceedings. We also have broad experience in actions against the unauthorized exploitation of industrial and intellectual property rights.

We help our clients identify and fully protect their intangible assets, increase their value and market relevance, and use them correctly. Our specialty covers trademarks, franchises, patents, inventions, copyrights, trade secrets, maintenance of rights, watch services, enforcement and IP litigation.

We work both in Mexico and abroad, with relevant experience in the United States, Canada, China, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Latin America, supported by a broad network of correspondent firms in each country.

• Trademarks

  For distinctive signs, we carry out the consultation and research needed to register, renew or publish trademarks, slogans and trade names of any kind. This includes classification according to the goods or services they will cover and the phonetic and design searches that assess registrability, identifying identical or confusingly similar marks that could be cited against the application.
  
  We also offer maintenance of rights: we manage our clients’ intangible assets, file the declarations of use required by law, watch third-party applications that could infringe their marks, file any appropriate oppositions, and draft and negotiate license agreements with third parties.

• Patents

  For industrial creations, we prepare technical analyses to determine whether an invention is patentable, and we advise on, prepare, file and prosecute applications for utility models and industrial designs and drawings.

• Copyrights

  For copyrights and related rights, we register pictorial works and drawings, sculptures and plastic works, cartoons and comics, architectural, cinematographic and audiovisual works, radio and television programs, software, photographs, works of applied art —including graphic and textile design—, compilations, graphic and distinctive features, phonograms, videograms and books.
  
  We also record documents, powers of attorney, collection mandates, contracts, deeds and bylaws of collective management societies; conduct searches of registry records and marginal annotations —including revocations of powers of attorney—, duplicates, corrections and the opening of pseudonym envelopes; and draft all types of agreements for the exploitation of copyrights and related rights.
  
  For reservations of exclusive use rights, we obtain preliminary opinions and registrations for periodical publications and broadcasts, artistic names and group names, fictional or human characters, and advertising promotions, as well as the renewal of those reservations.

• Advisory Services for Franchises

  We provide legal counsel to create, develop and roll out franchises: we draft, negotiate and record franchise agreements and their schedules, confidentiality agreements, manual loan and software use agreements, the Franchise Disclosure Document (COF), letters of intent and preliminary agreements, among others.
  
  We also defend the franchisor’s rights and resolve disputes arising from the franchise relationship.
  
  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