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Patents

Patent law is one of our core practices; Olivares & Cia. was the first firm in Mexico to employ staff with technical, scientific and specialized knowledge to work alongside our attorneys-at-law.

Our patent team has the required expertise, experience and technical know-how to protect clients’ ideas across diverse areas of science, technology and industry. We have technical specialists, engineers and scientists with backgrounds in chemistry, biotechnology, pharmacology, mechanics, electronics, computer software, bioinformatics, nanotechnology and other highly specialized areas. These technical specialists work hand-in-hand with our dedicated patent department attorneys and skilled translators to meet clients’ needs both in Mexico and when prosecuting PCT patent applications across Latin America. 

Olivares & Cia. has a reputation for getting complex patents applications granted quickly and effectively and is consistently named the Leading IP Law Firm for Patent Prosecution in Mexico by Managing Intellectual Property magazine. Furthermore, Olivares & Cia. is one of only two firms voted into Band 1 – Intellectual Property Law Firms in Mexico by Chambers Latin America.

Additionally, Olivares & Cia’s patent attorneys and agents ensure the protection of clients’ patents by offering legal services in areas that are a natural extensions of patent prosecution -- litigation, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, tech transfer, "anti-trust", and anti-counterfeiting. We will help you optimize your patent assets by structuring realistic, effective and practical strategies to co-develop, license, finance, sell, share or acquire patent rights as well as structure manufacturing, distribution and other activities deriving from clients´ patent portfolios, either intra-company or with third parties.