Degree:

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (Specialty in Communications Engineering), ESIME - Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, IPN - Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) of Mexico.

Practice Areas:

• Drafting and prosecution of Patents, Utility Models, Industrial Designs and Integrated Circuits Layout Designs applications before the Mexican Intellectual Property Office (IMPI).
• State-of-the-art searches.
• Analysis on patentability, validity, freedom to operate (FTO) and protection strategies.
• Opinion and technical advice on Patent, Utility Models and Industrial Designs strategies.
• Technical areas related to Computer Implemented Inventions, Telecommunications, Electronics, Electricity, Electromechanics and Physics.

Training:

• Master's degree in Political and Technological Innovation Management, CIECAS, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) of Mexico.
• Degree in Political and Technological Innovation Management, CIECAS, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) of Mexico.
• Technical Degree in Telecommunications, CECyT 10, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) of Mexico.
• "Training Course on the Examination Practice of Industrial Property (Intermediate/Advance Program)", Japan Patent Office (JPO).
• "Group Training Course on Intellectual Property Rights (A)", Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Kyoto Comparative Law Center (KCLC).
• "Advance Patent Program", United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA).
• "Experts mission on substantive examination on computer programs and business methods applications USPTO", USPTO and IMPI.
• "Conference on computer programs and/or business methods related inventions IMPI, EPO, USPTO, OMPI", EPO, USPTO; WIPO and IMPI.
• Diverse online courses on Intellectual Property matters given by the World Academy of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Professional Career:

Prior to joining UNGRIA's Mexico (Mexico City) office, he gained 15 years of experience at IMPI- Mexican Intellectual Property Office- in the Patent, Utility Models and Integrated Circuits Layout Designs fields. He served as Departmental Coordinator, Substantive Examination Supervisor and Patent Examiner, in the Electrical Area Patent Division, specializing in Computer Implemented Inventions.

Later on, he joined a transnational law firm for 5 years in the Intellectual Property Department where he focused his professional activity on technical-legal advice (for national and international clients) during the substantive examination of Patents, Utility Models and Industrial Designs applications; drafting of applications; searches; technical and patentability reports; and freedom to operate (FTO) analysis.

Languages: Spanish, English

In UNGRIA since: 2022