VILA Attorneys at Law
Senior Associate

Arturo Mondragon

Senior Associate

Intellectual Property

 Arturo is an Associate at VILA®. Specialist attorney in Intellectual Property, with a high focus and broad experience in the legal protection of intangible assets portfolios of international companies, associations, and artists; he is a certified translator by the Ministry of Public Education, through educational programs of translation and legal English affiliated to the University of Cambridge.

 

HOBBIES

Some of Arturo's interests are:

  • Sport Climbing 
  • Crossfit 
  • Creative Writting 
  • Cooking 

Arturo highlights in the following success cases: 

  • He has obtained favorable results through the development and orchestration of complex legal strategies in several jurisdictions at international level, to obtain and protect the main trademark of one of the most important pharmaceutical companies in Latin America, through legal actions in the fields of intellectual property, life sciences, contractual law and consumer protection.

  • Currently, he is in charge of the Intellectual Property Custody and Administration of the main brand of one of the most important pharmaceutical companies in Latin America (+1800 trademarks).

  • He has succeeded in overturning a wide variety of Office Actions in Mexico and the United States, to obtain trademarks and assets of various companies, through the study and creation of suitable administrative defenses.

  • He has succeeded in ceasing the unauthorized and improper use of trademarks, slogans and other intellectual property assets of his clients.

  • He has structured and obtained the protection of a trademark portfolio (+60 trademarks) of one of the most important Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Centers in the country, as a basis for its proper business expansion plan, through franchises around the national territory.

  • He has obtained favorable litigation resolutions in different countries of Latin America, for the granting of trademarks and intangible assets, as well as for their due defense and protection.

  • He has concreted commercial negotiations between various companies and industries, to achieve the coexistence of their brands in the market.   
  • He has suspended the illegal use of trademarks and slogans, in relation to third companies and establishments which had been infringing the intellectual property assets and rights of his clients.  

  • He has translated legal documents for administrative procedures and trials in the areas of commercial and administrative law, and intellectual property. 

Publishing several articles

Related to the protection of intangible assets in Mexico, international intellectual property treaties, the use of legal trademark search platforms, the infringement of intellectual property rights due to negligence of government initiatives, amongst others.

National Broadcast, Media and Telecommunications event

He has been recognized for his participation as a speaker and representative of VILA®.

Collaboration of the Government of the United States and the Government of Mexico

He obtained a scholarship, through a foreign language skills contest, for an academic residence in two renowned American universities.

 

VILA Attorneys

Diploma recognition for his lecture "Structural analysis of the Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) in the United States". 

VILA Attorneys

Diploma recognition for his lecture “Mexico’s position in the International Treaties regulated by World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)”. 

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