ClarkeModet

Website: www.clarkemodet.com

E-mail: [email protected]

Tel: +34 918065600

• Regional Business Director: Jaime de la Mora
• North America Business Director: Octavio Saldaña
• Group Bids & Tenders Director: Pablo López
• Group Chief IP & Innovation Strategy Officer: Clara Pombo
• Number of partners: 27 in Latin America / 44 in the global network
• Number of lawyers: 20 in senior lawyers in Latin America
• Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, German, French

Firm Overview

ClarkeModet is the largest Intellectual Property group in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. The Company was founded in Spain in 1879, and since then, it has accompanied innovators and creators in the protection, management, and defense of their intangible assets around the world, from Thomas A. Edison or G. Marconi to the more than 24,000 clients who today trust the Group.

Currently, ClarkeModet's companies are located in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela. They also have desks for the APAC, US, and European markets.

ClarkeModet is an effective ally for organizations that want to take their innovation to the next level through Intellectual Property. Its area of specialization ranges from the protection of patents, trademarks, designs, domains, and copyrights throughout the world to their defense before official bodies.

International Work and Global Network

Thanks to its 13 own companies in Europe and Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela), its EPO desk in Munich (Germany), US Desk, and APAC Desk, and its large network of agents it covers over 195 countries.

ClarkeModet operates with one of the most diverse teams in the sector. It has more than 500 highly specialized global team members with strong local experience and 23 different nationalities. Within the team, participates 10 European patent agents (EQEs—European Qualifying Examination) act for ClarkeModet.

ClarkeModet Group, is the first international IP operator in Europe and Latin America, offering a "One Stop Shop" for full IP innovation services in both continents.

ClarkeModet Centralization

Their strategic centralization model facilitates the process for its clients seeking to file intellectual property assets in Europe and Latin America. This model streamlines and optimizes procedures by consolidating various tasks to enhance efficiency, reduce redundancy, and ensure uniformity in the IP filing process.

It simplifies the complexities of cross-border IP filings and positions their offices as a key hub for seamless and effective intellectual property management.

In this way, they can centralize the management of its client's IP portfolio through a single specialized interlocutor with the same standards of excellence and internal policies.

This approach enables its clients to leverage the expertise of its teams, benefiting from their in-depth knowledge of the local legal landscape across Europe and Latin America.

The solutions.

ClarkeModet is a full-service provider for innovation :

·Advice and protect intellectual property

·Register patents, trademarks, designs, domains, and copyright around the world

·Defend Intellectual Property rights before national and international government agencies

·Shield organization’s know-how using trade secrets and blockchain

·Monetize intangible assets for an efficient management

·Explore the new possibilities that the digital world offers

·Innovate through technology and solutions to adapt to innovative global trends

·Provide Regulatory Services assessment to implement your innovation in the market

·Bring access to Tax & Funding

·Implement Technical Translation with high-quality and efficient service

Differentiation

ClarkeModet advises its clients to manage and exploit these assets efficiently, applying the latest technology in its services and offering greater agility, efficiency, and sustainability. In 2023, the Group acquired Arosa I+D, a company specializing in public aid and subsidies for innovation, tax deductions, and obtaining funds, from which it completes its clients' innovation cycles.

ClarkeModet boosts your IP by providing a One-stop-shop IP Service in Europe or LATAM to manage your trademark, patent, and other IP rights portfolio with the same excellent standards and internal policies. They have a highly competitive proposal worldwide thanks to its centralized rates.

As a company that supports and promotes innovation, ClarkeModet applies the latest technology and robotizes internal processes to offer increasingly agile and efficient services. Its more than 30 robots in production work on different processes related to the daily management of trademarks, patents, and other IP rights.

It combines its wide experience and innovation, developing the best strategy to protect and exploit its clients' IP intangible assets with a highly specialized, diverse, and technical expert team.

Clients.

They help over 24,000 organizations and entrepreneurs in all business sectors, sizes, and origins who believe in the power of innovation to transform the world. Their expertise areas are:

·Life sciences and healthcare

·Food and Beverages

·Biotechnology

·Chemistry

·Retail

·Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII)

·Mobility

·Energy (Oil & Gas)

·Construction and Manufacturing

·Food-Tech

Quality and Privacy

ClarkeModet offers a Quality management system (since 1999), including a TÜV certification ISO 9001, a standardization process for our representatives, and centralized IP services.

International Recognitions:

ClarkeModet has ranked in several international rankings that also recognized its experts, such as Legal 500, WTR, Chambers & Partners, IAM Patent 1000, IP Stars, Leaders League, IAM 300 Strategy, and Financial Times, Whos who legal.

Diversity

ClarkeModet has a very strong diversity and inclusion culture, focused on maintaining and promoting total diversity at every level of the organization, enforcing its culture through internal policies, manager coaching programs, and genuine cultural inclusion in their employees to recognize the plurality and singularity of all team members by enhancing the qualities that make them unique.

ClarkeModet is represented by 63% of female executives and 37% of male executives.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives:

ClarkeModet Group has its sustainability strategy integrated into the business strategy, establishing the axes where its actions will pivot to generate a greater impact on ESG (environmental, social & governance) aspects. This year, ClarkeModet has obtained the EcoVadis sustainability gold medal, one of the highest scores awarded, a global standard of international corporate sustainability rating that places us among the top 2% of legal services firms with best ESG practices and among the top 5% of the more than 125,000 companies that currently certify their sustainable practices through this international system. EcoVadis is the largest independent provider of sustainability ratingss.

ClarkeModet Latin America Offices

9 Partners in Mexico:

• Lorena Rodriguez - Regional Managing Director
• Angelica Pardavell –Inventions Director
• Tania López - Inventions Prosecution Manager
• Patricia Connelly - Inventions Prosecution Manager
• Mariana Garcia –Trademarks Director
• Victor González – Legal Services Director
• Sabrina Barrientos - Regulatory Services Manager
• Roman Soto – Central Services Director

9 Partners in Brazil:

• Claudio Castanheira - Regional Managing Director
• Ricardo Boclin –Inventions Director
• Silvia Costa- Inventions Prosecution Manager
• Flavia Lopes - Inventions Prosecution Manager
• Rafael Freire - Inventions Prosecution Manager
• Fabrize Pereira Da Cruz –Trademarks Director
• Patricia Falcao – Legal Services Director
• Arthur Lourenco – Central Services Director

4 Partners in Chile:

• Jimena Ugarte - Country Managing Director
• Danica Mardesic - Inventions Director
• Lorena Ossio – Central Services Director
• Daniela Meza – Trademarks Prosecution Manager

3 Partners in Argentina:

• María Luisa Santa María - Country Managing Director
• Verónica Kapovic – IP Specialist
• Nancy Mariela Wierzbicki – Central Services Director

3 Partners in Colombia:

• Silvia Patiño - Country Managing Director
• Miguel Rujana –Trademarks Director
• Juliana González – Central Services Director

1 Partners in Peru - Alvaro Arias - Country Managing Director

1 Partners in Uruguay - Fabiana Penades - Country Managing Director

1 Partners in Venezuela - Maria C Pinto - Country Managing Director

1 Partners in Ecuador - Fabian Rivera - Country Managing Director

1 Partners in Paraguay - Ana Cristina Garcia - Country Managing Director

1 Partners in Dominican Republic - Carlos Tapia - Country Managing Director

Experts: +500 highly qualified professionals of 23 different nationalities, specializing in all sectors of activity.

LATIN AMERICA OFFICES:  

Argentina 

Buenos Aires

[email protected]

+54 11 5258 0255 / +54 11 4312 0594

Avenida Leandro N. Alem N° 465,

Piso 3, Dpto F.

Brazil 

Rio de Janeiro

[email protected]

+55-21 3223-9500

Rua do Passeio, 38 Setor 1 – 14º andar (Edifício Passeio Corporate) Centro – Rio de Janeiro CEP 20021-290

Chile 

Santiago de Chile

[email protected]

+562 2433 6830

Edificio Metropolis, Av. Apoquindo 3669 Of 901, Las Condes

Colombia 

Bogotá

[email protected]

+ 57 1 618 1088

Cra. 11 N° 86 53 piso 3, Edificio Segovia

Ecuador 

Quito

+ 593 02 323 00 63

Av. Alfaro N34-194 y Catalina Aldaz

Edificio Corporativo 194, Piso 7mo

Mexico 

Ciudad de México

[email protected]

+52 55 5340 2300

Av. de los Insurgentes Sur 601, Nápoles, Benito Juárez, 03810 Ciudad de México, CDMX. Piso 17

Paraguay 

Asunción 

[email protected]

+595 971 50 20 40

Cruz del Chaco N°3794 entre Mcal. López y Quesada, Edificio Citicenter, 4° Piso 1402, Asunción

Peru 

Lima

[email protected]

+51 1 461 20 73

Calle Enrique Palacios Nº 335 Oficina 602, Lima 15074

República Dominicana 

Santo Domingo

+180 95188 734

Av. Tiradentes, esq. Presidente González,

Edificio La Isla spirit, 10119

Uruguay 

Montevideo

[email protected]

+598 27087858

Av. Brasil 2986 of. 804, 11300

Venezuela  

Caracas

[email protected]

+58 212 266 6462

Avenida Francisco de Miranda Torre Provincial B, Piso 7, Ofc. 71, Chacao 1060