Sergio Rangel

Associate Coordinator of the Anti-piracy/Anti-counterfeit department. He has a wide experience in developing and managing successful enforcement campaigns for different clients from a variety of industries such as entertainment, fashion, high technologies, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, food, etc.
Sergio has developed customized approaches for the enforcement of our clients’ Intellectual Property rights —including Trademark, Copyright and Patent— through a variety of strategies from cease and desist/educational letters to administrative and criminal actions.
Through the passage of time, the requirements of clients in the high technologies, entertainment, telecommunication and pharmaceutical fields, led him to deepen his expertise in such industries. It is this earned expertise which lets him foresee the problem and the available solutions to the enforcement of the valuable IP rights portfolios.

Associate  
 srg@olivares.com.mx
 +52 (55) 53223000 Ext. 3803
 +52 (55) 53223001

Practice areas
• Anti-piracy, Anti-counterfeit & Enforcement
• IP Litigation & ADR

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Memberships

• AMPPI  
• EIPIN 

Remarkable Cases
• Motion Picture Association v. Siglo X.com. Representing MPA in a criminal complaint to shut off a streaming service of an unlicensed catalogue of films established in Mexico. 
• Motion Picture Association v. Saharis. Representing MPA in an administrative complaint to stop parallel imports of copyrighted works and unauthorized rent of films.
• Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. v. Tovarin & Cía. Representing KPENV in an administrative complaint to seize and destroy in a border measures action near seven million of compact discs due to violation of patents.
• Eli Lilly y Compañía de México v. Sales y Materias Primas. Representing Eli Lilly in a border measures administrative action due to the unauthorized importation of a patented active ingredient.


Articles
• “New register against counterfeits”. Managing Intellectual Property. [2011].
• "Beat the counterfeits in Mexico". Managing Intellectual Property. [2010].
• "Who has not ever drawn something, or created a thought? An approach to Intellectual Property". Michoacan State Council for Science and Technology Magazine C+Tec. [2010].• "Internet issues / Country correspondent: Mexico". World Trademark Review. [February/March 2009].
• "New customs rules lead to seizures". Managing Intellectual Property. [2008].


Education
• USPTO Intellectual Property Border Enforcement Program. The United States Patent and Trademark Office. Crystal City, VA, U.S.A. [2].
• Master of Intellectual Property and Information Society Law. Universitat d’Alacant, Spain. [2004]. (Magister Lvcentinvs).
• Diploma in Intellectual Property. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City. [2000].
• Diploma in Corporate Law. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. [1999].
• Juris Doctor, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. [1997].