Gabriela Gándara
Latin America Guide 2024
Star Associates : Intellectual Property
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Provided by Gabriela Gándara
Practice Areas
Corporate
Intellectual Property and Technology
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Professional Memberships
Guatemalan Chamber of Intellectual Property (CAMPI), member of the Academic Committee
Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Personal
Gabriela is Intellectual Property and Technology Director in our Guatemala office. She focuses her practice in providing comprehensive advice to national and international clients including the management of intellectual property portfolios throughout the Latin American region.
With more than 15 years of experience, she advises clients in the protection of their intellectual property rights and management of complex portfolios for multinational and local companies, including the registration of trademarks, oppositions, copyrights, including registration of works and software, development of strategies in civil and criminal litigation, related to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, as well as the negotiation of contracts related to them, among others.
Before joining Dentons Muñoz, she served as a legal advisor to the Trademark Department and the Copyright and Related Rights Department of the Registry of Intellectual Property of Guatemala. She went on to spend six years as the director of the intellectual property department at one of the nation's leading firms.
Additionally, Gabriela has been a professor of intellectual property at two of Guatemala's most prestigious universities, in the faculties of Law, Design and the School of Cinema.
Experience
In the litigation field, she advises and represents clients in cases of trademark infringement, nullity of trademarks, both in criminal and civil matters, obtaining favorable results for clients in trials.
Regarding Copyright matters, she has worked in complex Copyright matters, having advised clients from different industries in various Copyright subjects. During the last years, she has advised clients in the entertainment and film industry in Guatemala, a sector that is developing and gaining importance in the country, helping entrepreneurs and young filmmakers. She has also worked advising clients in the music industry, providing litigation strategies for the defense of copyrights and related rights, as well as the negotiation of licenses related to rights.
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Central America
Languages Spoken
Spanish
English
Education
Universidad Alicante
Master's Degree, industrial and intellectual property (Magister Lvcentinvs)
2014
Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Law Degree
2009