Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells hosts a range of multinational clients for whom it handles its global trade mark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement and maintenance. Its contentious expertise includes infringement and invalidation actions, defending registration validity, and resolving disputes through cease-and-desist strategies. The team’s broad offering also extends to advising on publishing and artist agreements, anti-counterfeiting programs and copyright issues such as unfair competition in advertising. Bernardo Herrerías is the longstanding lead of the firm’s IP practice, navigating the full scope of matters across patents, trade marks and copyrights. With a ‘top-notch’ ability to develop legal strategies, counsel Edgar Mata supports matters involving the acquisition and protection of IP rights as well as copyrights, and IP defence and enforcement in trials and anti-counterfeiting actions. On the senior associate bench, José Casillas is a strong litigator in trade mark, patent and copyright matters, whilst Valentina Schmid has extensive experience managing trade mark portfolios.