Head of the Patent Department
Life Sciences Patent Division
Graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences, specialization in Genetics, in
1982.
She was examiner in the Biotechnology branch at the Cuban Patent Office, and
also has worked as patent agent in several law firms, in Cuba and Ecuador. She
has also worked in support to R&D projects and patent protection for several
scientific institutions.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for the Management of Intellectual
Property in Health, Research and Development, MIHR, and co-author of the
Handbook of Best Practices for Management of Intellectual Property in Health
Research and Development, (United Kingdom, 2003).
She has been associate professor of a graduate on IP of the Cuban Patent Office.
Now she collaborates as WIPO expert on patent drafting in the life sciences
field. She has also given services of patent drafting to other law firms from
Argentina and Spain. |
Head of Trademark and Legal Department
Graduated in Law (Summa cum laude) from Havana University, Cuba (1989), and from
Catholic University of Ecuador (1998). Academy of American and International
Law, Southwestern Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas (2000). She has worked as a
trademark and patent agent in Cuba,Venezuela and Ecuador. Legal off-counsel for
several I&D institutions on patent protection and technology transfer.
Speaker in a number of Seminars for the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), Latin-American Integration Association (ALADI), Licensing Executives
Society (LES) and Intellectual Property Interamerican Association (ASIPI).
Professor of Industrial Property Law and History of State and Law. University of
Havana. Cuba. Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Central University of
Ecuador.
Author “Software protection” Brazil, 1991; “Protection and Commercialization of
biotechnological results”, Ecuador 1998.
Member of Intellectual Property Interamerican Association and Inter-American Bar
Association. Honorary Fellow, Center for International Legal Studies. Austria. |
Engineering Patent Division
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering, in 1987.
He has been involved in IP matters, working as examiner in the Mechanical field
of the Cuban Patent Office, and also as patent agent in several law firms, since
1987.
He is member of AIPPI and ASIPI. |