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Home » English » Our People » Attorneys / Engineers » Agustín Azcatl

Agustín Azcatl

Agustín works in all areas of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and Life Sciences. His has an expertise in the pharmaceutical business —with a 19-year track record of activities on Validation of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Process (sterile or non-sterile process), calibration, quality assurance, quality control, audit quality, launching of new products, regulation affairs, and the for the last five years in Intellectual property, concretely in patent and design prosecution, consulting and patent infringement.

Patents engineer  
 azr@olivares.com.mx
 +52 (55) 53223000 Ext. 3612 
 +52 (55) 53223001


Practice areas
• IP Litigation & ARD
• Regulatory Law


Languages
   


Memberships

• AMPPI  


Articles
• "Changes to marketing authorization rules". Managing Intellectual Property. [July-August 2011]


Education
• Diploma in Intellectual Property. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City. [2011]
• Master in Business Administration. Universidad La Salle, Mexico City. [2006]
• BSc. in Chemistry, Pharmaceutics & Biology. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. [1991]
When I'm not being a lawyer...
I love spending most of my free time with my family, and especially with my son, daughter and wife. I like to read the newspaper and listening to the radio.