Arturo Mondragón
Partner
Arturo Mondragón is a partner and co-team leader of the intellectual property practice at our firm. An attorney specializing in intellectual property, compliance, and strategic litigation, has built a steadily ascending career, both as external counsel and in-house lawyer, of leading companies across their respective sectors. His practice centers on the acquisition, defense, and strategic management of intangible assets, as well as brand protection, unfair competition, digital law, and cross-border compliance.
He stands out for managing complex intangible-asset portfolios for large-scale organizations —among them two top-tier pharmaceutical companies and the only Mexican tequila house positioned in the luxury segment. He has a sharp ability to design and implement legal strategies that have opened and safeguarded key markets for the companies he advises, with a deliberate focus on mitigating legal and reputational risk. He has led the commercial expansion of various companies, aligning it with the regulatory requirements of each jurisdiction and coordinating strategic litigation against authorities worldwide. His leadership philosophy centers on the human factor and its development, oriented toward building and consolidating creative, empathetic, high-performance teams.
• Patent defense against generics: securing judicial and constitutional rulings that protected a pharmaceutical company’s patent against two sanitary registrations for generic-drug products filed by a competitor, stopping their commercialization in the country.
• Notorious trademarks: management and securing of three notorious trademark declarations —two in the pharmaceutical sector and one in the luxury spirits sector— a distinction reserved for marks of exceptional market recognition.
• International patent license: due diligence, negotiation, and structuring of a license agreement for exclusive commercialization in Latin America, for USD $8,500,000.00.
• Material transfer agreements (MTA): due diligence, negotiation, and coordination of two material transfer agreements that secured key molecules for the development of platform patents for innovative ophthalmic treatments, for over USD $2,000,000.00.
• Strategic alliance between luxury brands: due diligence, negotiation, and coordination of a partnership and joint-venture agreement between two ultra-luxury houses to develop an innovative promotional joint product aimed at international markets, for USD $1,000,000.00.
• Strategic trademark acquisition: negotiation and acquisition of a significant tequila trademark in the Mexican market.
• Flagship trademark defense (legal sector): design and execution of the administrative and judicial strategy that obtained favorable rulings in defense of the flagship trademark of one of the leading labor-law firms, against an unfair competitor in the same field.
• Luxury-product compliance: legal advisory and coordination in the development of a luxury product to ensure compliance with Mexico’s new intellectual property provisions and prevent risks associated with ambush-marketing practices.
• Notorious Trademark Ceremony (IMPI): symbolic recognition granted directly by the Director General of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property regarding the notorious trademark declaration obtained for the spirits company under his IP stewardship.
• Distinguished Student — “Global Proficiency Skills”: distinction awarded by Universidad de Guadalajara, with an academic residency at Oglethorpe University (Atlanta).
• Thesis of Merit — Universidad Complutense de Madrid: recognition of the final thesis for the advanced specialization master’s, titled “The use of third-party trademarks as AdWords within the framework of online trademark infringement”.
• Distinguished Participant — Broadcast México: recognition as a recurring participant and speaker since 2020.
• Diploma in Legal Translation and Legal English: by the Mexican Ministry of Education (Secretaria de Educación Pública).
• Diploma in Corporate Law: by the Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce (Camara de Comercio de Guadalajara).
• WIPO certifications: General Course on Intellectual Property (DL101S23S1) and Summer Course on Business Law and Public Health.
• Member — PTMG (Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group): member of the international pharmaceutical-sector trademark group, since 2023.
• Member — Association of Professionals in Telecommunications, Informatics and Technology Standardization: member since 2023.
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