Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC

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We are an international law firm specially focused in all areas of intellectual property and technology transfer with more than 40 years of positive influence in the Mexican practice of intellectual property, which has made us both a national and international reference. Our unique organisational design provides us with the capability of guarding the ideas of our clients at every stage of the protection process. As strategic partners of our clients, we converge the experience and knowledge of our human capital to counsel our clients with their IP business, guarding and enforcing their interests in the most effective and assertive manner.

Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC possesses a strong background in practically every scientific and technical area and it has also developed a solid expertise in legal advice regarding IP issues. As a result, we have built up a wide range of services related to intellectual property and technology transfer in Mexico and other countries. We have the collaboration of prestigious associates worldwide who help us make this possible. The firm’s IP services include:

• Prior art analysis for determining the novelty of an invention, the validity of a patent, the potential infringement of prior patents by an invention, and the like.
• Drafting and preparation of patent applications both for Mexican and foreign filing.
• Prosecution and maintenance of every type of industrial property right, including plant varieties and microchip layouts.
• Analysis of registrability of trademarks.
• Trademark and patent watch services.
• Consultancy in copyrights, contracts and agreements, and legal advice in issues regarding radio, television, film-making, printing law and internet law.
• Protection of databases and computer programs.
• IP enforcement advice to determine the best litigation strategy.
• Enforcement of IP rights before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and different legal instances.
• Private investigation related to infringement presumptions or non-use/use presumptions of IP rights and related issues (customs).
• Anti-counterfeiting actions (civil, criminal and administrative).
• Competitive intelligence.
• Strategic knowledge management.
• Technology transfer and commercialisation.
• Franchising.

Our human capital allows us to provide integral and multidisciplinary counselling regarding every matter related to intellectual property and technology transfer, from technological issues affecting the electronic, information technology, chemistry, biotechnology and electromechanic industries, among others, to the legal sphere, covering everything from contentious issues to the different corporate affairs of our clients’ agreements, contracts, technology licensing agreements, etc.

Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC is always active and committed to innovation and providing the best quality services. We have developed, implemented and improved our services related to enforcement of IP rights, anti-counterfeiting, IP value extraction, and technology protection. We also support every corporate need of our clients with our corporate affairs department, where we focus our efforts in giving the proper advice our client requires.

All the above reasons support our loyalty and enthusiasm to our main purpose: to provide an integral protection to the ideas of our clients.

Thiers 251, 9th to 14th floors

Col Anzures, Del Miguel Hidalgo

11590 Mexico City

Mexico

Tel: +52 55 52638730

Fax: +52 55 52638731

main@bcb.com.mx

Fernando Becerril
fbecerril@bcb.com.mx

Enrique Caamaño-Coca
ecaamano@bcb.com.mx

Héctor Chagoya
hchagoya@bcb.com.mx

Juan Carlos Amaro
camaro@bcb.com.mx

Nuria Becerril
rbecerril@bcb.com.mx

www.bcb.com.mx