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We strategically combine legal and technical skills looking for the excellence.

ABREU & ASOCIADOS

Members of our firm formerly worked with IP Offices and R&D companies, lecture before law faculties, are speakers in international forums and trainers for IP specialized organizations.

ABREU & ASOCIADOS and their partners are members of prestigious international organizations like INTA, AIPPI and ASIPI.

Janet-Hernandez-ABREU-ASOCIADOS

Janet Hernández Cruz

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). Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property (MIP) OBS – University of Barcelona, Spain.(2013-2014). 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 and University of America (UDLA) in Quito .

Author “Software protection” Brazil, 1991; “Protection and Commercialization of biotechnological results”, Ecuador 1998.

Member of Intellectual Property Interamerican Association and Inter-American Bar Association, ASIPI, INTA, AIPPI. Honorary Fellow, Center for International Legal Studies. Austria.

Janet Hernández Cruz
jhernandez@abreuip.com

Valerya Basantes- Abreu Asociados

Valerya Basantes Reyes

Attorney at law and Doctorate , graduated in Central University of Quito (2000).

Wide experience in regulatory matters (Agricultural registrations and Food and Drug regulations) in Ecuador.

Actively involved in regulatory and intellectual property matters since 1995.

She has lectured conferences about legal and technical issues related to the Agricultural Register and regulatory issues and has attended many events organized by the authorities of the Ministries of Agriculture and of Public Health of Ecuador, and by the Colombo-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce of Colombia.

She has attended several events organized by the local authorities in the matter (namely Agricultural Ministry and Public Health Ministry).

She used to work in some tier Law Firms in Ecuador, managing and advising registration and labeling of products and protection of complex trademarks portfolios in Latin-American countries. References upon request.

Valerya Basantes Reyes
vbasantes@abreuip.com

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