Bufete Candanedo
Panama
Rolando Candanedo N. Senior Partner 0050 7+213-0033 rolando@bufetecandanedo.com
Bufete Candanedo was founded in 1976 and offers an array of specialized corporate legal services. It has grown in experience, reputation and diversity of practice over the course of its 30-year history. It is organized into multiple departments in the following areas: Corporate & Business Law; Corporate Counseling; Taxation; Real Estate Investments; Environmental; Immigration; Mergers & Acquisitions; Business Opportunities in Panama; Intellectual & Industrial Property; Food & Drug Regulatory Affairs; Litigation; Arbitration & Mediation; Maritime Law. Bufete Candanedo is deeply involved in all forums concerning the discussion of IP issues, and actively participates in the process of approving and adopting agreements and laws for the benefit of the IP community. It is a member of ASIPI, INTA, AIPPI, ABA, Panamanian Association of Industrial Property, Panamanian Chamber of Technology and Telecommunication and Panamanian Bar Association. It offers services not only in Panama, but in Central and South America through a net of Associates committed with the same quality of service that characterized our firm. The IP group has an excellent team of professionals specialized in Intellectual Property Law, that provides full services to a wide range of clients from companies to individuals, connecting in a one-stop shopping the services required in the Intellectual Property field. The net of associates around the world (especially in Latin America), the efficient managing of the IP assets of clients and highly specialized service, provides clients with a trustworthy associate in their interests. Services include, but are not limited to, registration and protection of trademarks, patents, utility models, designs, copyrights and domain names; litigations concerning opposition and cancellation of trademarks registrations, trademarks infringement, copyrights infringement and related matters. According to the Senior Partner Rolando Candanedo N., transit through the Panama Canal and Colon Free Zone is the main concern of the companies that carry merchandise with well known trademarks, and thus, the risk of carrying the transit without the registrations titles is an incentive to file applications in Panama. Rolando Candanedo N. said the firm been a member of the International Trademark Association since1986. He said cross-referrals are very important, because you can share experience with you colleague
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Scavia & Zúñiga Abogados
Peru
Renzo Scavia Partner 0051-1 440-8181 rscavia@syzlegal.com
Scavia & Zúñiga Abogados, based in Peru, is the result of the merger of activities between Estudio Scavia Abogados, a law firm specialized in Intellectual Property and Competition Law, founded by Managing Partner, Renzo Scavia R., and Ricardo Zúñiga N., founding partner of Estudio Morante & Abogados, a law firm which specialized in Corporate Law and Litigation. The firm offers personalized and highly specialized integral legal services to its clients in business law and foreign investment, with particular emphasis in corporate law, private and public contracting, administrative economic law, labour law, intellectual property, competition law, sanitary registrations, licensing, franchising, distributorship, domain names, e-commerce and regulation of the market, as well as in civil, commercial and administrative litigation. Managing partner Renzo Scavia said: “We provide highly efficient and timely legal advise to the economic agents when they decide to access to the market, cooperating in the election and generation of the most efficient commercial vehicle for the development of their economic activity through the incorporation of a Company or by the execution of associative agreements. Also, our team is aware that being efficient when rendering legal services to our clients is not enough that is why our slogan is, “Turning efficiency into excellence.” Scavia & Zúñiga Abogados has been an INTA member since 2004, but Renzo Scavia has been attending INTA Annual Meetings from 1999. The firm actively participates in INTA activities and, as a result, Renzo Scavia was invited by INTA to speak at one of the INTA round tables in the Annual Meeting which took place in Chicago in 2007, and has been appointed by INTA to continue being a member of the INTA Bulletin Committee for the period 2010-2012. Managing partner Renzo Scavia concluded: “INTA is, undoubtedly, the most important and prominent association on trademark issues throughout the world. It has showed to be an essential tool not only for academic purposes, but also for networking, for strengthen our relationships with friends and clients and, finally, for sending and receiving referrals to and from other INTA members.”
M. Uzcátegui & Asociados
Venezuela
Leonardo R. Uzcátegui P. Partner +58 212 693 5012 lrup@uzurma.com
Since September 2008, the government of Venezuela has applied the Industrial Property Law of 1955, replacing the Decision 486 of the Andean Community of Nations, which in turn replaced the Industrial Property Law of 1955. M. Uzcátegui & Asociados provides advisory to clients in the areas of Industrial Property (trademarks and patents); Intellectual Rights (copyright and legal deposit); and audits on matters related to maintenance of trademarks, trade names, domain names, slogans and annuities. Since its foundation, the firm has provided comprehensive services at a national and international level, culminating in more than 50 years of experience. M. Uzcátegui & Asociados partner Leonardo R. Uzcátegui P. commented: “Within our gamma of activities, we are distinguished in the execution of franchising contracts, assignments, audits and licences of trademarks and patents. We take care of processing clients’ work from the initial stages of searching and filing, to administrative prosecution, litigation, investigations and enforcement of IP rights in Venezuelan countries and all American countries.” When asked how the firm is distinguished in the provision of trademark and IP advice, Mr. Uzcátegui noted: “M. Uzcátegui & Associates has implemented a new Case Management System (CMS) where our clients will now have access to our database every day of the year. This can be used to verify the status of cases including deadlines and due dates, as well as to extract copies of trademark/patent applications and/or any other documents filed before the competent administrative office and/or Tribunals of the Republic.” Mr. Uzcátegui added that Venezuela’s trademark and IP industry has not been spared the widespread ramifications of the economic downturn, stating that in recent months the firm has noted a significant decrease in the number of patents/trademarks filed with the Patents and Trademarks Office in the country. To increase its international capacity and client base, the firm recently joined INTA, the International Trademark Association. Mr. Uzcátegui said of the resultant benefits that a number of firms had made contact for means of advice and referrals, having obtained information and recommendations for M. Uzcátegui & Associates via INTA’s comprehensive Online Country Portals, which provide a gateway to country-specific online trademark information.