Women in Law Awards 2021 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MEXICO - 67 - LAURA COLLADA DUMONT lcollada@dumont.com.mx ABOUT LAURA COLLADA Laura has more than 30 years of experience in the IP field and has been Managing Partner of Dumont since 2008. She is a true strategist and has acted on several milestone cases. Laura leads most of the firm’s large and complex cases. Furthermore, Laura has a high profile both locally and internationally. She is regularly invited to speak for organizations such as MARQUES where she is council member and project leader in the international trademark team; International Association of Lawyers UIA, where she is the Spanish Deputy Editor, and she has also been invited as a Speaker at the UIA Biotechnology Law Commission Seminar on Glass Ceiling May 2015; ASIPI where she leads the Madrid protocol committee, FICPI, ABPI and INTA where she is member of the famous and well-known trademarks committee. She is co-chair of the standing committee on geographical indications in AIPPI and member of national and international professional associations, including AIPF (member of the board), AIPLA, ECTA and PTMG. She is a renowned teacher at several law schools. Recently Laura made a presentation before the Mexican Senate Committee that is deliberating on ‘plain packaging’ for cigarettes, presenting arguments from the perspective of IP and IPRs. She is very active in promoting the Madrid protocol and has lectured on the topic domestically and abroad. Laura’s practice covers the complete lifecycle of IP rights. However, since the recent dramatic changes to the Mexican legal framework, she has been increasingly dedicated to the promotion of the Madrid system among clients, as well as the new opposition system that entered into force. She was invited to be part of the expert team to work on the wording of the amendments to the Mexican Industry Property Law. She was asked to write, among all the experts, the initiative of law as well as the exposition of reasons. This project of amendments has been introduced and presented to the Mexican House of Representatives and turned into law. She also continues to design strategies for clients as well as litigating. Laura is one of the two only women in Mexico who is the managing partner of an IP law firm and a three times recipient of the best IP lawyer in Latin America award of Euromoney’s Americas women in business law. She writes about IP for national newspapers and international IP magazines. She is fluent in English and Spanish. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Industry specialties and area expertise: • Patents • Trademarks • Litigation • Copyrights • Media and Entertainment • Fashion • Telecommunications Sector Expertise: • Electronics & Semiconductors • Entertainment • Publishing & Media • Fashion & Luxury Goods • Life Sciences & Chemistry • Pharmaceuticals • Robotics & Nanotechnology
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