Lola Kandelaft

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Consumer Products

Professional Memberships

Organizer and speaker of the XII Annual Intellectual Property Congress of the Externado de Colombia University, 2016

Member of INTA

Member of the INTA Geographical Indications Committee

Publications

Author, Chapter "Trademark Law in the Andean Community of Nations", Trademark Law practice in the world, Editions Larcier, to be published.

Author, "Civil Responsibility for Trademark Infringement. Proposals to grant a dissuasive function to the trademark infringement ", IARCE Magazine nº37, 2016

Speaker of the X International Encounter of Civil Responsibility organized by the Colombian Institute of Civil and State Responsibility, 2015.

Author, "The geographical indication as a ground for the rejection of the trademark application in Colombia: the special protection granted to 'Colombian Coffee'" (French), Revue Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle, 2015

Personal

Lola is the Associate Director for the Firm in the Intellectual Property area. She has 12 years of experience advising clients from all industry sectors in the management, protection, and defense of their IP portfolios, both nationally and internationally, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, domain names, industrial designs, and appellations of origin.

She has experience negotiating and drafting contracts and in judicial representation in cases of IP rights infringement. Furthermore, she was a professor of the Intellectual property diploma at the Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano.

Languages Spoken

Spanish, French, English