Marcela Trigo

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Communications, Life Sciences

Career

Marcela Trigo joined the Firm in 2014 as a partner in the group of Intellectual Property and Information Technology and Communications, acting with focus on litigation and strategic advisory. She is currently Head of the Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry Group and has extensive experience in legal disputes involving patents, industrial secrecy, protection of confidential data, data package exclusivity (DPE), unfair competition and regulatory compliance, especially in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and telecommunications areas.

She worked at the Finnegan office in Washington D.C., where she served as an international lawyer in the patent litigation area, focusing on the bio & pharmaceutical industry. She served as an advisor to Judge Randall Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C.

Professional Memberships

Board of Directors of LES Brazil, Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property, Member of the Anti-counterfeiting Committee from the Bar Association.

Personal

Graduated from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro with a degree in Law and from The George Washington University Law School with an LLM in Patent Law, holds a master’s degree in Civil Procedural Law from Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro.