Mexico

ClarkeModet, established in 1879, is the biggest international Intellectual Property group in Latin America and an entry point to Europe. With an operational presence in 17 countries, it manages one in every ten patent applications in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets.

Their trajectory spans a century and a half of life-supporting history’s great inventors. With over 140 years of supporting innovators worldwide.  ClarkeModet offers full-service IP legal, technical and consultancy experience across all industry sectors. And are pioneers in creating and implementing new IP services, mostly supported by technology and IP business consultancy experts. They maintain this innovative vision to keep up with global trends.

ClarkeModet manages the most important Intellectual Property portfolios among the main innovation-generating industries worldwide, being a valued partner to maximize their innovation.

 Global network

ClarkeModet operates in over 195 countries thanks to its networks of agents.

They are pioneer in international expansion and has a presence in 17 countries, operating with a global team with a local soul.

• In Latin America, with its own companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
• In Europe, Spain, Portugal, and we own an EPO office in Munich (Germany), which has assigned a network of 7 European patent agents (EQEs - European Qualifying Examination) acting for ClarkeModet.
• In the United States, new sales offices have been opened in New York (USA) and Miami (USA)
• In Asia, it has a presence with sales offices in China, and Seoul (South Korea).

ClarkeModet solutions.

ClarkeModet provides specialized IP services, based on its experience, technical experts, technology, and business consultancy.  Their solutions are based in:

• Advice and protect your company’s intellectual property
• Register patents, trademarks, designs, domains, and copyright around the world
• Defend Intellectual Property rights before national and international government agencies
• Shield your organization’s know-how using trade secrets and blockchain
• Monetize your intangible assets for an efficient management and maximize its benefits
• Explore the new possibilities that the digital world offers
• Innovate through technology and solutions to adapt to innovative global trends

For the past 75 years, Hogan Lovells has been a prominent presence in Mexico. From our Mexico City and Monterrey locations, we provide legal solutions to a diverse national and international clientele. Clients come to us for our deep understanding of the local market, strong relationships, advantageous cultural acumen, and unwavering adaptability to the ever-changing regulatory landscape. We take pride in delivering customized services, ensuring that each client’s individual needs are met.

Our team of top-tier local talent has a wealth of experience, which equips us with unparalleled insights and the capacity to deliver comprehensive solutions to businesses operating in Mexico. We provide legal advice on a wide variety of areas, ranging from corporate and finance to litigation and regulatory matters. And our extensive client portfolio spans numerous industries, including energy, construction, transportation, telecommunications, technology, and financial services, among others. Moreover, our commitment to technological innovation ensures that we remain at the forefront of legal services in Mexico.

With extensive global reach and deep local expertise, we offer an unparalleled
blend of skills to help our clients navigate the complexities and seize the
opportunities of doing business in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and
Wong & Leow LLC, stands at the forefront of legal excellence.

We have the capabilities to offer comprehensive advice on both domestic
Singapore law and intricate cross-border issues, ensuring our clients receive
holistic and seamless legal support. As the preferred counsel for numerous
companies leveraging Singapore as a strategic hub for their regional operations,
our lawyers excel in managing multijurisdictional transactions and mitigating
cross-border risks with precision.

Our Singapore office is seamlessly integrated into a global network,
providing on-the-ground expertise across ASEAN countries and access to
Baker McKenzie’s expansive international network. This unique positioning
enables us to adeptly support the diverse domestic and international needs
of our clients, delivering tailored solutions that drive success in a dynamic
global market.

BIP LEGAL is a Firm specialized in Industrial and Intellectual Property affairs. We are fully committed to provide comprehensive, effective, efficient and valuable counseling to our clients.

Our team has broad experience acquired over more than 25 years of practicing Industrial and Intellectual Property Law. It is one of our main strengths to translate this experience in providing strategic advice in all areas of Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright; throughout all stages, from the creative process, prosecution and maintenance of IP rights, to licensing, monetization and enforcement, under both Mexican and international regulations.

In response to the need for a comprehensive consultancy, we extend our practice to other legal areas closely related to Intellectual Property, including entertainment law, advertising law, fashion law, health law, regulatory affairs, antitrust and corporate law.

With a clear vision on business, our goal is to advise on adding value to the technological, industrial, commercial and artistic innovations of our clients, preventing risks and enhancing opportunities.

At all times, we pursue to make alliances with our clients on the basis of our personalized and dedicated attention, continuous support, solutions design based on their specific needs, a great deal of commitment to our client objectives, professional excellence and business trustability.

C&L ATTORNEYS is a fresh option in the Mexican IP market that delivers excellence thru effective teamwork that makes a difference. With more than 19 years in business and experts in every area of IP, we have a proven track record of successfully handling high-profile and highly complex IP cases.

Great client service is our key differentiator.

Highly credentialed and thoroughly experienced in all fields of intellectual property; key work areas include IP strategy, clearance and search opinions, trademark filing and opposition, trademark prosecution, IP litigation and enforcement, risk assessment, drafting and filing patent applications (covering the Patent Cooperation Treaty and Paris Convention), drafting design applications and federal court appeals.

Particular sectors of expertise include: Aerospace, Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Computer Technology & Services, Construction & materials, Electrical, Electronics, Fashion & Luxury goods, Food & Beverage, Gaming, Healthcare, Hospitality & Leisure, Manufacturing, Media, Medical devices, Pharmaceutical, Professional services, Retail, Technology Hardware and the Tobacco industry.

Currently, C&L ATTORNEYS is ranked by editorials as a leading IP firm and its professionals are also listed as leading individuals by: CHAMBERS, LEGAL 500, WTR 1000, IAM PATENT 1000, LEADERS LEAGUE, WIPR LEADERS, BEST LAWYERS.

The firm is an active member of: International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the Licensing Executives Society International (LESi) and the Mexican Bar Association. It is also involved in regional associations – including the Asia Patent Attorney Association (APAA) and the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) – which allows C&L to develop an extraordinary network of associates and deliver faultless IP services in Mexico and across Latin America.

The firm’s top-notch communication skills allow for the provision of services in English, French and Spanish.

After more than 20 years as leading expert in patents, technology transfer and intellectual assets management, representing world-class companies and advising IP firms about the Mexican IP system, Héctor Chagoya decided to establish Mextrategy. This innovation consulting firm, does not provide legal representation or prosecution services, but provides advice to maximize the economic value of the knowledge of organizations and independent strategy advisory for IP firms and companies that manage patent portfolios in Mexico and Latin America.

Mextrategy provides sound strategies for IP enforcement, IP policy lobbying, IP rights selection for strategic protection, expert opinions for damages and patent validity or infringement, and even advise for selecting firms in the region for all of the above and interacting with partners for technology transfer, considering the skills and potential conflicts of interest given the scarcity of skilled patent advisors in the region.

Throughout time, man as an intelligent and sensible being has shaped his intellect and emotions into intellectual creations, which are translated in some occasions into works of art, and in others, in practical solutions to commercial and industrial problems.

In addition to the aforementioned, the necessity to protect these intangible assets, which are the result of human intellectual activities, arose with the creation of Intellectual Property, made up by the Intellectual Property and Copyright Law.

Nowadays, Intellectual Property protects a wide variety of intellectual creations, classifying them under many different legal principles, in accordance with their own characteristics.

In Basham, Ringe y Correa, we are aware of the importance that tangible assets may have, as well as the competitive advantage its correct protection represents, whether for an individual or a company. A great part of our efforts is focused on the proper legal protection of our clients’ intangible assets, mainly through the constant updating of personnel, the participation in international organizations and associations, international meetings, conferences, courses, etc. Our Intellectual Property Area consists of expert lawyers for each specialized area, engineers, technicians, and office personnel, which constitute a team, concerned and focused on the protection of our clients’ intellectual property rights.

The services provided by Basham are divided into specific areas, in accordance with the required specialty and knowledge level. These areas are the following:

• Industrial Creations
• Industrial Secrets
• Distinctive signs
• Copyright
• Domain Names
• Licenses
• Litigation

Our Industrial Creations and Industrial Secrets Practice

The firm relies on a group of professional experts with a great deal of experience, some of whom come from governmental agencies that oversee intellectual property matters, as well as in other specialized industries, and who are capable of offering ample protection of intellectual property rights. The Patents Area is divided into the following specialties:

• Electrics
• Mechanics
• Communications and electronics
• Biotechnology
• Chemistry
• Pharmaceuticals

Some of the services provided are:

• Patentability searches and opinions regarding the availability of free and open use of technology.
• Patent registration procedures pursuant to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property or the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
• Utility model and industrial design registration procedures.
• Maintenance of patent rights.

Industrial Secrets:

Confidentiality is an essential part of innovation, as well as of business strategies. That is how companies, scientists, researchers, as well as business people are able to preserve confidential information regarding industrial or commercial use that represents a competitive or economic advantage over its competitors. However, in order to achieve it, adequate actions must be taken.

In Basham, Ringe y Correa, we develop prevention strategies, methods and measures that allow for the preserving of confidentiality and restricted access to information, for the maintenance and non-disclosure of industrial secrets, as well as for the drafting of contracts, which include Intellectual Property and Labor aspects, as well as other legal matters, in case of illegal use, profit or disclosure.

Network Memberships:

• Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI)
• Mexican Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
• Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)
• Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• International Association for Intellectual Property Teaching and Research (ATRIP)
• National Association of Corporate Counsel (ANADE)
• Mexican Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
• International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
• Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Licensing Executives Society (LESI)
• Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES)
• International Franchise Association (IFA)
• Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
• Intellectual Property Commission of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico (Confederación de Cámaras Industriales de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos-CONCAMIN)
• Interpacific Bar Association (IPBA)
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
• Pharmaceutical Trade Mark Group (PTMG)

Today, with more than 50 years of experience since our foundation, in Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B) we evolve and transform ourselves by creating integral solutions with which we commit to go along with our clients from their ideas to the starting up and the operation of their projects, powering their ideas while preventing and reducing risks. Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B) has taken the step to change from a boutique firm specialised in intellectual property to a firm that offers a wide range of solutions that guarantee integral counseling in protection, legal matters and innovation momentum. Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B) adds to its assets a wide, diverse and expert group in litigation, which covers civil & commercial litigation, as well as commercial arbitration among a wide variety of legal services to provide every legal solution in these matters. Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B) also adds an expert group that provides and creates business solutions focused on strategic and commercial transformation and systematic innovation of retail businesses through a very specialised group. Through all these actions, Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B) has and will continue evolving our service offering to guarantee our clients the fulfillment of the imminent needs that arise in this era of constant change and transformation.

Throughout the years, we have preserved and evolved our strengths, looking to generate novel ways of increasing our scope of solutions, developing the ability, the infrastructure, and our competency to create them. That is how we achieved on shaping the Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B) Technology Transference Office, created to support entrepreneurs, startups and companies to create and implement business strategies that generate economic benefits through their intangible assets, giving then momentum to innovation and protecting their IP rights with our philosophy of integrally taking care of the creations and technological developments of entrepreneurs and business owners.

During this journey, innovation as a constant in Becerril, Coca & Becerril (BC&B), has taken us through a series of technological and organisational transformations that have positively changed the way we offer our services. These factors, together with our acknowledged quality and customer service today has positioned us in Mexico and in foreign countries as a leading boutique firm specialised in intellectual property, offering not only the traditional IP services, but also creating and developing unique and differentiated services that result from the vision, ability and expertise of our IP specialists, to take care of the most complex needs that our clients face. That is how we have achieved recognition in patent and trademark prosecution, patent and trademark litigation, patent and trademark strategy, licensing and business management on a sustained basis for several years now.

Our mission is to provide innovative solutions and highly specialized legal advice for clients facing the most complicated legal and business challenges in Mexico.

OLIVARES is continuously at the forefront of new practice areas concerning copyright, litigation, regulatory, anti-counterfeiting, plant varieties, domain names, digital rights, and internet-related matters, and the firm has been responsible for precedent-setting decisions in patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

• Patents
• Trademarks
• Copyrights
• Litigation
• IP Litigation
• Anti-Piracy | Anti-Counterfeiting
• Civil Litigation | Commercial Litigation
• Constitutional & Administrative Litigation
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) |Mediation & Arbitration
• Licensing, Tech Transfer & Franchising
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Regulatory Law

Our firm is committed to developing the strongest group of legal professionals to manage the level of complexity and interdisciplinary orientation that clients require. During the first decade of the 21st century, the team successfully led efforts to reshape IP laws and change regulatory authorizations procedures in Mexico, not only through thought leadership and lobbying efforts, but the firm has also won several landmark and precedent-setting cases at the Mexican Federal and Supreme Courts levels, including in constitutional matters.

Today, the team at OLIVARES includes 9 partners and more than 45 associates working across intellectual property, regulatory, administrative, civil, and commercial and corporate law, serving many different industries, and is constantly awarded for excellence in legal service.

We aim to utilize every available resource to help clients achieve optimum results, protecting their business interests, intellectual property, and other rights at every level and through the applicable administrative or judicial venue, in order to maximize successful outcomes - all while maintaining an overarching goal of contributing to Mexico’s broader stance in the global economy and for the greater good of the Mexican people.

Our vision is to shape the legal environment that opens Mexico to the greatest innovations the world has to offer by:

• Providing exceptional legal services that result in client growth and business success
• Creating an atmosphere where lawyers, technical experts, and staff, work together on solutions that lead to brilliant achievements
• Inspiring improvements to the legal landscapes in Mexico that foster economic progress

KNOWLEDGE • INNOVATION • RESPONSIBILITY • TRUST •SOCIAL COMMITMENT

Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & uhthoff, S.C. was founded in 1905 and since it has been distinguished by its tradition of service. This legacy from our founders has been a constant through four generations; for us our clients are our biggest asset and today, into the second century of our existence, we once again affirm our historic priority. uhthoff, gomez vega & uhthoff, S.C. is considered the most important Intellectual Property Law Firm in Mexico and one of the top multi-practice law firms.

Our firm is divided in six main areas, which provide service to local and international customers. The six main areas are Litigation, Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Entertaiment Law and data Privacy however our services and practice specifically includes the following:

• Anti-Counterfeit and Enforcement
• Contracts
• Copyrights
• Data Privacy
• Domain Names
• Entertainment Law
• Licensing
• Litigation
• Patents
• Plant Breeder's Rights
• Trademarks
• Biotech and Pharma
• Franchises
• Information and Communication Technology
• *Civil and Commercial Litigation
• *Tax

*These services are provided through allied firms.