Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

Intellectual Property & Technology Law

Marina Hurtado leads the Baker McKenzie's patent practice in Mexico. With more than fifteen years of experience handling sophisticated intellectual property matters, she advises on a broad range of areas, including prosecution, licensing, and litigation of patents, utility models, industrial designs and trade secrets. In addition to this, Marina has extensive experience in areas of life sciences, advertising and consumer laws, as well as in patent linkage matters that cover the communication between the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property with the local health authority in charge of granting marketing authorizations for pharmaceutical products.

In October 2019, Marina was appointed by the secretary of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs as ad honorem external advisor on intellectual property issues to collaborate in the development of IP public policies in Mexico.

In 2023, Marina was appointed as vice president of the IP Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.

Marina's practice includes counseling, strategy and contentious cases for the protection and defense of patents and designs. She handles administrative litigation before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, nullity trials before the Federal Tribunal on Administrative Matters, constitutional litigation before the Collegiate Circuit Courts and District Courts.

She advises on advertising and labeling pre-clearance for new products and campaigns, promotions, commercial information and sanitary affairs and handles procedures before the Federal Consumer Protection Agency, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks and the Interior Ministry.

English, Spanish

Escuela de Derecho Digital (Diploma in Law, Business and Technology) (2020) Univ. Nacional Autonoma of Mexico (Diploma in Energy Law) (2018) Institute INEDUFARM (Diploma Degree in Sanitary Regulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry) (2013) Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre (LLM Intellectual Property) (2009) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Law Degree) (2007)