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MARÍA PEREZ-CHAO

Foreign Trademark Department
Degree:
  • Law Degree, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
Practice Areas:
  • Legal and technical advice and assistance concerning filing and prosecution of Trademarks abroad (direct trademarks abroad, international trademarks, European Union Trademark and Community Designs).
  • Administrative defense of Trademarks and other Intelelctual Property rights before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and National Trademark Offices worldwide.
  • Legal advice, management and counseling in the prosecution Trademark rights: drafting of opposition writs, non-use cancellation and nullity actions before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and National Trademark Offices worldwide.
  • Drafting and remittance of cease-and-desist letters.
  • Assistance in extrajudicial conflict resolution including negotiation and Trademark coexistence agreements worldwide.
  • Drafting of strategies for the protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights internationally. 
  • Management, control and supervision of Intellectual Property portfolios.
Training:
  • Master's Degree in Intellectual Property and New Technologies Law, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja.
  • Higher Course on Business Law for SME Management, Universidad Complutense.
  • Intensive Course on European Union Law and Single Market, Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales (SEI).
  • Preparation of open exams for Labour and Social Security Inspectorate, Centro de Estudios Financieros (CEF).
  • Seminar focused on Protected Designations of Origin and Geographical Indications and their degree of protection in the European Union according to EUIPO and WIPO regulation and practice, Mercantile Department of the Universidad de Alicante.
Professional Career:

Before joining UNGRIA's Madrid office, she started her professional career in the Trademark Legal Department of a Spanish Intellectual Property firm. She was also a professor at an important Spanish university.

Since her incorporation to UNGRIA in 2008 and, for more than 10 years of experience in the Intellectual Property field, she has focused her professional activity to the legal-technical advice regarding the prosecution and enforcement of Trademark rights internationally. She has also specialized in the development of strategies for the protection of Intellectual Property rights internationally as well as in the extrajudicial resolution of conflicts by assisting third parties in the negotiation of intangible assets.

Languages: Spanish, English

In UNGRIA since: 2008