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Intellectual Property

Innovation, creativity and knowledge are the engine of businesses that generate value. We help our clients manage, maximize and protect the value of their intangible assets.

Our practice

Our capabilities in this area.

  • We protect trademarks, works and distinctive signs in Colombia and in any jurisdiction, with a practice ranked in the top tier by the leading international directories. We advise domestic and multinational companies on building, enforcing and leveraging their portfolios.

    • Trademark protection strategy
    • Clearance searches and registrability and freedom-to-use opinions
    • Filing, prosecution, enforcement and watching of distinctive signs in Colombia and abroad
    • Copyright: advice, registration and agreements concerning literary, artistic, musical and software works
    • Appellations of origin: protection, recognition and authorizations of use
    • Domain name disputes
    • Anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting actions, including border measures
    • Administrative and judicial intellectual property litigation
    • We combine technical and legal expertise to support our clients in protecting and strategically leveraging their new developments. Our team of scientists, engineers and specialist attorneys has the experience and knowledge required to understand complex technologies and to design solutions aligned with each client's business objectives.
    • We advise domestic and international companies on patent portfolio management in Colombia, Latin America and other jurisdictions worldwide, as well as on high-impact litigation, technology transfer and regulatory matters in innovation-intensive sectors such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agrochemicals, mechanical engineering and electronics.
  • We provide official (sworn) translation of documents of every kind, together with professional and technical interpretation across a broad range of technical disciplines and languages, to quality standards that meet the demands of the legal and corporate sectors.

    • Certified official translation
    • Professional simultaneous and consecutive interpretation
    • Legal and corporate translation
    • Editing and proofreading
    • Transcreation — cultural adaptation of content
    • Transcription and subtitling
    • Document localization
    • Language training