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Enrique is a Business Administrator with a specialization in Human Talent, Strategic Management, Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Business Development from the Instituto Tecnológico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Enrique joined the firm in 1991. He has more than 25 years of working experience in areas such as Finance, Accounting and Human Resources. He has been Partner since 2010 and was designated Vice President. He has been BC&B’s transformation promoter, resulting in a unique firm in Mexico as a result of the scope of its legal, technical, commercial services and integral counseling offered to its clients. Enrique was appointed as CEO of the firm in 2018.
He has been BC&B’s transformation promoter, resulting in a unique firm in Mexico as a result of the scope of its legal, technical, commercial services and integral counseling offered to its clients.
Attorney at Law (2002), with postgraduate degree in Constitutional Law from Universidad Panamericana He also obtained and ILEC from Cambridge in 2006.
Juan Carlos joined BC&B in 2004 and has been a partner since 2010. He has almost 20 years of experience in the practice of Intellectual Property, Administrative Litigation, Constitutional Law and International Trade.
Juan Carlos leads the IP Litigation Group, the Trademark & Copyright Group and the Corporate & Commercial Law Group of the firm since 2010. He represents clients in their IP and Commercial global strategies and has represented domestic and international clients in more than 500 litigation cases.
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Juan Carlos has been invited to participate in several national and international forums on IP and Administrative matters and has contributed to different domestic and foreign associations with opinions relating to the legal IP framework. He has also been invited by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) to participate in Tokyo and Osaka as speaker in different seminars talking about Mexican Litigation Practice.
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer specialized in Electronics. Graduated from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – School of Engineering.
He obtained a Diploma in Management Skills by the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey.
He joined the Firm in 1990 as Systems Manager and became Director of IP Management, automating business processes and designing proprietary software for the firm's own management. In 2010 he became a Partner of the firm.
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In addition to his activities related to patent practice, where he focuses particularly on telecommunications, business methods and software, he is responsible for the institutional relations of the firm with national and international authorities and associations.
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He regularly participates as speaker and moderator in several IP forums either in Mexico and abroad. He has published several articles related with domain names, business methods and software patents in several media. He was columnist of the Mexican magazine Alto Nivel from 2015 until 2017. Actually, he is columnist of the well-known magazine Entrepreneur in Spanish.
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Chemical Engineer from Universidad La Salle (ULSA) holds a diploma on Management Skills from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and another in Teaching Skills from ULSA. He was the first professional recognized as Certified Licensing Professional® in Mexico, and in addition he is expert recognized by the National College of Chemical Engineers and Chemists (CONIQQ) in the specialty of Engineering Economy.
He initiated in patent practice back in 1997 and since then, he has acquired vast experience as consultant in the analysis, prosecution and use of patents in industrial fields such as polymers, biotechnology, pharma and electronics among others, as part of BC&B, having participated as expert witness in litigation cases and having been recognized by his knowledge in patent matters in Mexico and abroad, in addition to his practice on technology and intangible assets valuation, negotiation skills, contracts and technology transfer.
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Currently he leads working teams for patent prosecution in Mexico and abroad, negotiating intellectual property assets, technology evaluation and the technical aspects of patent litigation, including the direction of the Technology Transfer Office of the firm which has been recognized under government program PROSOFT 4.0.
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He has published articles in specialized Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer magazines with international outreach, and has collaborated in books on Trade Secrets, Pharmaceutical Law and Technology Transfer. He was professor in the Chemical Engineering program at La Salle University for 15 years and he has given speeches and classes on topics of his expertise in Mexico and abroad, as well as modules about intellectual property and/or technology transfer in diploma programs of higher education institutions and in support to societies related to intellectual property, technology transfer and innovation.
Industrial Engineering from UIA with MBA at ITAM. Certified in Design Thinking by the MIT.
Jorge is Managing Partner of our Business Transformation area, dedicated to Strategic, Commercial and Innovation consulting. He has more than 25 years of experience managing and operating companies and commercial areas in multinational companies in Latin America.
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Attorney at Law graduated from Universidad Panamericana Law School with a master degree in European Union Law and post-graduate studies in Commercial Arbitration.
Raúl is partner of BC&B leading the Civil and Commercial group of the firm since 2018 and has more than 16 years of practice in litigation and Commercial Arbitration.
He is responsible of attending matters related with litigious consultancy, strategic litigious planning and intervention in all type of suits, proceedings, trials or appeals related with civil, commercial, family litigation and Commercial Arbitration.
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He has contributed in some publications concerning litigation matters in national forums, such as IUS Ibero, Unión de Revistas de Estudiantes de Derecho and IDC, among others.
Likewise, he has participated in several commercial arbitrations representing and defending successfully transnational companies in disputes over $ 68,000,000.00 USD; obtaining favorable results for his clients.
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and Attorney at Law from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM).
With 13 years of experience in Intellectual Property, he joined BC&B in 2005 where he has been in charge of the substantive examination, formal examination and filing of patents, utility models and industrial designs.
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Currently he is in charge of the Maintenance of IP rights in Mexico and abroad; the docketing and central control of the firm’s files and the Translation department.
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In 2015 he was invited by the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) to attend to the post-graduate course “JPO/IPR Training Course for Practitioners Specializing in Patents (IPPP)” at the Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation (JIPII), Overseas Human Resources and Industry Development Association (HIDA) and Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center (APIC). Octavio is author of several IP articles for international publications including the contribution for Mexico on the book “Design Rights – Functionality and Scope of Protection” published by AIPPI and Wolters Kluwer. He has been speaker for the subject “Industrial Design protection in Mexico” during the 2016 Pan-American YMC of LES (Ottawa CA) and the 2017 AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute (Ft Lauderdale FL).
Attorney at Law. Law Degree from Universidad Anahuac (Mexico Sur).
Has 17 years of experience in the practice of Intellectual Property. Joined BC&B in 2004, named Associate of the firm in 2012 and junior partner in 2018.
He is the Head of the Trademark and Copyrights areas of the firm in Mexico and abroad.
He is in charge of the Trademarks and Copyright areas of the firm both in Mexico and abroad.
He advises transnational and domestic companies and understand the needs of practically all kind of industries, such as Technology, Telecommunications, Consumer Goods, Automobiles, Food and Beverage, Retail, Luxury Clothing.
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Attorney at law from the Universidad Intercontinental (UIC) with 20 years of experience in Commercial and Corporate Law.
He joined BC&B in 2012 and became an associate of the firm in July 2013. In 2018 he was named junior partner of the firm. He worked during several years in the most important telecommunications company in Mexico and Ibero-America.
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He leads the Corporate and Commercial Group of the firm.
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He has taught several courses at universities and professional associations. He has published materials for journals related to Commercial and Corporative Law, Privacy and Intellectual Property.
Attorney at Law, from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México with a Master degree in International Law at the same university and postgraduate studies at Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC, USA, and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Has 13 years of experience in the practice of Intellectual Property and 15 years of experience in Litigation. Joined BC&B in 2005, named Associate in 2013 and junior partner in 2018.
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He leads the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation group.
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He is professor of Intellectual Property Law at Tecnológico de Monterrey and has taught several courses at universities. He has published materials for several national and international journals in intellectual property, and chapters of books of Law.
Industrial and Systems Engineer. He graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Campus Ciudad de Mexico in the year 2002. He then made a Diplomate Course in Management Skills and another one in Finances at the same Institute. He attended the program of Improvement of Management Skills at ICAMI.
He joined BC&B in 2002 and has more than 15 years of experience in Management, Control and Maintenance of Intellectual Property Rights.
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He is in charge of the Management and Control of all matters of the firm and the maintenance of Intellectual Property Rights in Mexico and abroad.
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He has published articles in different media related to Intellectual Property.
Chemist and Lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Also She holds a Master Degree in Top Management from UNAM. She is a Certified Licensing Professional®. y ha obtenido el reconocimiento como Certified Licensing Professional®
Mariana has 12 years of experience in intellectual property. She joined BC&B in 2008, where she has specialized in the technical-legal analysis of IP, technology transfer, technical consulting in regulatory aspects and strategic innovation management systems.
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She is in charge of supervising all the services of the Technology Transfer Office (recognized by the Mexican Secretariat of Economy), including all kind of patent searches/analyses, as well as patent drafting.
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She has taught several courses at universities and professional associations. She is a frequent participant in local and international IP forums and regularly publishes articles in different IP specialized media. Co-author of Clever Value®, a methodology owned by BC&B.
Co-author of the Clever Value® methodology owned by BC&B.
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Attorney at Law by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, graduated from the ENEP ACATLAN with a pre-specialization in Commercial Law.
He has 25 years of experience in the area of Industrial Property. He joined BC&B in 2003 where he has specialized in customer service of the branch, for the advice, maintenance and management of Intellectual Property rights. He has been part of the BC&B associates body since 2009.
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He is responsible for the Management and operation of the Guadalajara office. The attention to its clients and the management of its Intellectual Property Rights of its competition.
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National Association of Business Lawyers (ANADE). Counselor, coordinator of the Intellectual Property Committee (2015-2019)
del comité de Propiedad Intelectual (2015-2019).
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He has contributed in several publications on intellectual property at national level, as well as in book chapters on Industrial Property, he has participated as a speaker in various national forums with topics related to industrial property and Copyright.
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