Mexico

Firm overview

Dumont is a Mexican IP law firm founded in 1940. We are committed to assisting our clients in the selection, clearance, protection, enforcement, and exploitation of their IP rights and business interests. We are experts on inventions (patents, utility models, and industrial designs) and distinctive signs (trademarks, trade names, commercial signs and appellation of origin and geographical indications).

Our practice extends to highly specialized topics such as litigation, copyright, Information Technology, corporate Law and anti-counterfeiting, appraisals of both trademarks and patents in compliance with the Financial Reporting Standards (NIF) by a team of expert lawyers, litigants, and advisors in the various disciplines covered by our area. Our associates stay on top of recent developments in the market and in the legal area to provide value-added services. While taking our clients’ commercial situation into account, we provide high-quality services that are tailor-made to fit the needs of our clients around the world.

We are committed to maintaining a leadership position in legal trends, technology, and business, as well as offering personalized, proactive and preventive legal strategies, corporate tax advice (related to IP issues) and value-added services. We strive to provide the most responsive advice in order to achieve and exceed our clients’ expectations.

Our broad experience in the field, specialization in IP, and close contact with clients sets us apart. Additionally, we use top-notch technology created for our area of expertise (Patrix ® Helpware) and we are the only firm in Mexico certified by TÜV Rheinland (Registration No. 74700 8162) since 2008 in both the operational and administrative quality system (ISO 9001:2015). These distinctions allow us to provide services with highest-quality standards.

We take pride in building strong business and personal relationships with our clients. We remain committed to being extremely responsive and are engaged in answering queries within 24 hours. We are devoted to delivering top-of-the-line legal services in order to achieve our clients’ high expectations. Many of our clients have remained with us for more than 40-50 years; we believe this is a testament to the quality and care that Dumont offers its clients.

The firm has digitalized its archives and is fully able to assist clients that are looking for a paperless environment. The main contacts of the firm, as well as other colleagues, receive training in different areas, not only in the legal or technical areas, but also on how to achieve client satisfaction.


Network Memberships: INTA, AIPPI, MARQUES, ASIPI, LESI, AIPLA, AIPF, GRUR, UIA, BMA, AMPPI

Last updated 21st June 2018

Firm overview

Iberbrand® is an Intellectual Property firm that even when conceptually conceived as Iberbrand® seven years ago, brings along more than twenty-five years of experience through its practice and recognized partners.

Iberbrand’s values are based on Service, Ethics and Excellency, which are the guidelines for everything performed within the firm. With four partners and a competent team of attorneys, litigators, engineers, paralegals, interns and assistants Iberbrand® consolidates a solid goal oriented firm, making of our job a leisure and of client’s our friends. Our philosophy is to be creative and innovative as our clients® and as the field we work in, trying to be one step ahead of the needs and fast changing markets.

Our goal is not only to protect and enforce your IP but to provide global strategies that achieve better results, less conflicts, more satisfactions. Our practice is not only focused on Mexico as we also provide services in Latin America and Caribbean, ideally being a one-stop shop for our clients.

Our areas of expertise are focused mainly on portfolio management, advice and building strategies of Brands, Company Names, Signs, Logos, Symbols, Patents Inventions, Methods, Applications, Industrial Designs, Utility Models, Copyrights, Customs Protection, Labeling and Enforcement and Negotiation of all of the above.

More information can be found at www.iberbrand.com


Network Memberships: INTA, AIPPI, ECTA, AIPLA, APAA, ABA, PTMG, AIPF

Last updated 14th May 2018

Firm overview

ClarkeModet is the largest IP group in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, with 10 companies in Europe and Latin America and a multidisciplinary team of over 500 experts.

In addition to provide prosecution and enforcement IP services (registration, maintenance, defence and monitoring of IP rights), ClarkeModet offers highly specialised advice to help clients to create impact on the market. The firm’s professionals do so by means of the transfer, use and profitability of IP assets and by implementing in the organisations work systems and policies aimed at generating a competitive advantage. The firm’s international presence and local knowledge enables it to offer a unified service of management of patents portfolios, based on unified work processes in all the countries it has a presence in and with the same quality standards and corporate policies.

ClarkeModet was founded in Spain in 1879, with the current structure dating back to 1892 following the merger between “Clarke y Cia” and “Agencia General de Patentes y Marcas”. It started its international expansion in 1940, establishing new IP firms in Portugal and Latin America.

Global Presence

The group is currently present in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Uruguay and Venezuela with 24 offices and three international desks: Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. This large infrastructure allows a centralised management of large IP portfolios.

Key data

ClarkeModet Group is one of the largest applicants of Patents and Trademarks in all the markets in which its companies are present:

• The greatest applicant of patents in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries
• The second greatest applicant of trademarks in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
• The company actually manages 1 out of every 10 patents within the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.

Technology & Innovation

ClarkeModet has incorporated new technologies in both customer services and internal processes to guarantee quality and speed. The company is a pioneer in the use of technologies such as blockchain or machine learning to increase the protection of its clients’ assets in order to face new challenges on digital markets.

CSR

Through its internal regulations and corporate culture, ClarkeModet supports different social interest initiatives, as well as inclusion and sustainability policies. The main lines of action of its CSR are focused on the promotion of diversity in its teams through its inclusive recruitment policies.

ClarkeModet minimizes environmental impact through a policy such as electronic invoicing and file digitization, as well as following programs such as Ecoembes for recycling.

CSR initiatives include the support for non-profit organizations and Universities through the sponsorship of various programs of Intellectual Property and stimulation of innovation.

Last updated 8th March 2020

Firm overview

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