José Meythaler Baquero

Practice Areas

J.D. José R Meythaler is an expert lawyer in pharmaceutical matters with more than 30 years of experience. His experience includes but is not limited to official control of drug prices and defense of the pharmaceutical and agrochemical market against unfair trade, anti-competitive practices, and pharmaceutical and agrochemical patents. He has litigated frequently in both the administrative and judicial fields and successfully defended several patents against compulsory licenses.

Moreover, he is considered a national benchmark in obtaining judicial control measures for patent holder's rights in Ecuador. More recently, he has intervened in the implementation of test data protection laws for new pharmaceutical and agrochemical products in Ecuador. He is considered one of the most experienced pharmaceutical patent litigators in Latin America.

His successful trajectory has been recognized several times by the most prestigious legal directories "for the consistently high quality of his work", "a leading pharmaceutical patent expert who has handled many high-profile patent cases for international pharmaceutical giants".

Professional Memberships

- IBA

- ASIPI

- ECUADOR BAR ASSOCIATION

Publications

José Meythaler last publication: Ecuadorian Journal of Arbitration, "Annotations on possible regulatory reforms to the Ecuadorian arbitration system." (2017), among many others.