Intellectual Property
A company’s intellectual property represents one of its most valuable assets and in this area of practice, Jáuregui and Del Valle’s Intellectual Property team is among the leaders in Mexico. Our practice has four main focus areas.
First, one thing that makes us a complete Firm on Intellectual Property is that we not only offer advice on traditional trademark, patent and copyright registration, conservation and litigation, we are also highly specialized in helping international companies fight counterfeiting and piracy in all industry sectors. This is a complex area and for many years we have proudly offered clients advice on how to protect their Intellectual Property Rights against infringers and counterfeiters.
The Firm is also well-recognized for its strengths in trademark registration and preservation, as well as in copyright registration and follow-up in Mexico and the rest of the world. Our strategic advice ensures that customers can implement deep but profitable solutions.
Copyright is another area we specialize in. Jauregui y Del Valle handles the portfolios of many copyright holders, conducts license searches in Mexico and abroad for authorship work and related rights, along with document presentation, follow-up and maintenance. It also has a team of proactive copyright attorneys dedicated to copyright defense, negotiations, infringements and complex litigation.
Finally, the litigation team focuses on highly complex cases, such as intellectual property infringement claims before administrative, civil and criminal courts on trademark, copyright, plant variety and patent related issues. Our team’s experience on intellectual property litigation is complemented with market-leading information technology expertise and has been trusted to resolve intellectual property claims and criminal actions against internet sites and social media profiles. This includes more than 20 cases involving the recovery of over 45 domain names due to proceedings filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for cybersquatting activities, among other cases with Mexican digital intellectual property authorities.
Practice highlights
Jauregui y Del Valle represents Mexican and foreign companies in the filing, maintaining, and prosecuting of trademark portfolios in LATAM and around world. We have a worldwide network of counsels that provide help to our clients in all the jurisdictions where they have special needs of protection of its IP rights.
Jáuregui y Del Valle represents international clients in litigation and has obtained the official declaration of fame of a considerable number of consumer products, medications, sporting goods, alcoholic beverages and other recognized trademarks.
Jáuregui and Del Valle served as counsel to a worldwide leading sporting clothes and accessories company, conducting investigations that led to enforcement actions against counterfeiters of its most recognized brands.
Jáuregui and Del Valle represented one of the most important telecommunications companies worldwide in obtaining trademark registrations in Mexico to compete in the telecommunications sector. The Firm also provided advice relating to advertising with which the company legally began operating in Mexico alongside its competitors and successfully represented it in litigation both as plaintiff and defendant.
Jáuregui and Del Valle represented two of the largest international companies in the toner, printing cartridges and ink market in their campaign to combat counterfeiting through the Mexican Industrial Property Institute (IMPI), the office of Mexico’s Attorney General (PGR) and the General Foreign Trade Audit Administration (AGACE), as well as in training customs agents in the detection of false products.
Jáuregui and Del Valle represented a leading pharmaceutical company in enforcing a search against counterfeit production of drugs that were sold in illegal markets in Mexico City.
Jáuregui and Del Valle counseled one of the world’s leading consumer products companies, in researching and proposing actions against various coffee and homemade sauce infringing products.
Finally, Jáuregui y Del Valle provided legal assistance to one of the largest telecommunications companies in the defense against a company that accused our client of using unauthorized software; using a whole complex strategy of defense we have obtained favorable decisions on behalf of our client.
