OLIVARES

Patents

Partner

Rommy Morales is a partner at OLIVARES and joined the firm in 2008. She has provided advice to several of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and chemical companies in the protection and defense of their intellectual property rights. She co-leads the Patent group and coordinates the areas of filing and patent prosecution. She is recognized as one of the most distinguished specialists in Mexico in patent prosecution and IP litigation, owing to her extensive technical knowledge and vast experience in this field.

Rommy Morales boasts over 16 years of experience in intellectual property, with a specialization in patent prosecution, IP litigation, and plant variety protection. She is renowned for accurately identifying clients’ needs and subsequently developing and implementing strategies tailored for the protection of their industrial property rights.

Rommy provides technical and legal advice to national and international clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries. Her advice covers the preparation, filing, prosecution, granting, and enforcement of patents, including patentability and validity opinions, as well as freedom-to-operate analyses.

In her role, Rommy Morales supervises the team responsible for filing and prosecuting patent applications. Owing to her distinguished reputation as a biologist and her extensive experience in the field, she also leads the department dedicated to plant variety protection in Mexico.

Rommy has participated in numerous legal proceedings related to life sciences, including litigation cases involving pharmaceutical products of significant commercial interest.

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Asociación Mexicana para la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (AMPPI). American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Intelectual Property Specialist – Honorary Mention, 2010. Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, M.Sc. –  Molecular Biomedicine, 2006. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, B.Sc. in Biology, 2003.