Mónica Bonnett

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property; Life Sciences

Career

Monica Bonnett is a partner in the Life Sciences and Intellectual Property areas of the firm. Over the past two decades, Monica has gained extensive experience in the Life Sciences sector. In this regard, she has advised multiple clients on (i) patents; (ii) industrial designs; (iii) trade secrets; (iv) know-how; (v) sanitary registrations; (vi) regulatory matters for both human and animal products; (vii) plant varieties; (viii) controlled substances; (ix) cannabis legislation; (x) healthcare industry; (xi) legislation on research centers and clinical trials. Similarly, Monica has advised a wide range of clients on health law matters. Similarly, Monica has advised a wide range of clients on health law matters and has been cooperating in many transactions of the health care sector.

Her experience includes all processes related to the prosecution of patents, industrial designs, including litigation and conflict resolution, technology transfer, consulting, and patent technology searches in Latin America. Monica is particularly skilled in managing large portfolios of sanitary registrations for both human and animal products in Latin America. She also designs strategies for the filing and obtaining of sanitary registrations for food and beverages, medical devices, drugs, dietary supplements, household cleaning products, personal care products, cannabis, and cosmetics, as well as veterinary drugs, animal cosmetics, and pet food. Monica is also knowledgeable about the import and export procedures for seeds, human genetic material, the protection of plant varieties in the Latin American continent, and obtaining licenses for fertilizers.

Monica combines her knowledge of patents, confidential information, know-how, proprietary information, and trade secrets in Intellectual Property consulting, helping to build a value chain for intangible assets, structuring protocols for confidential information, and generating a knowledge value chain to turn it into an Intellectual Property asset.

Her expertise has allowed her to participate in complex due diligence processes in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, cannabis, food & beverage, medical devices, and clinical trials industries, among others.

She is recognized for her legal advice on complex health-related issues such as ethics committees, clinical trials, structuring business models for controlled substances, and import and export of genetic material.

The clients Monica has handled throughout her career have been national and multinational companies, and she is recognized for providing her services not only in the Colombian territory but also throughout the Latin American region.

Professional Memberships

Coordinator of the Group of Study for Cannabis legislation in Latam Countries, ASIPI, 2021-2023

Founder and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Women's Group in Colombia

Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)

American Intellectual Property Association (AIPLA)

International Trademark Association (INTA)

Publications

"Historical Overview on the Evolution and Legislation of Cannabis in Latin America", Meritas, 2023

"Aspectos Legales de la Vacuna del Covid-19", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2020

"La Inteligencia Tecnológica, La Ruta a Seguir", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2020

"Seguridad para Producir Fórmulas Magistrales de Cannabis", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2020

"Innovación y Propiedad Intelectual Tendencias del Siglo XXI", Coordinadora y co-acutora, Tirant LoBlanch, Colombia, 2019

"Global Cannbabis Industry: The Essential Primer", Meritas, 2019

"Expanding Cannabis Operations in Latin America & The Caribbean", Meritas, 2019

"Regulación de información confidencial en el país", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2018

"Desafíos de Protección de Vida en Colombia", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2017

"Los Recursos de la Gestión de la Innovación", Asuntos Legales de la República, 2017

Education