The Women's IP World Annual 2019/2020

MEXICO CHINA
Hackers. Counterfeiters. Squatters. When too much of daily professional life is filled
with the stress of IP portfolio management, many companies and entrepreneurs turn
to Michele S. Katz.
Calm. Focused. Thorough. Michele provides a calming approach to managing IP
assets. With nearly two decades of experience, Michele conducts trademark searches,
prepares opinions, and monitors trademarks to confirm that her clients’ intellectual
property rights are used properly and effectively. She manages copyright registration
portfolios in addition to familiarizing U.S. Customs with client designs in an effort
to stop counterfeit goods at U.S. borders. In the area of patents, Michele litigates
complex patent litigation matters including such varied products as textiles, hard
disk drives, airbag covers and interface transfer technology. She also manages patent
portfolios to ensure U.S. and foreign patent protection for clients.
Her client results have earned her recognition by Super Lawyers Magazine and Illinois
Leading Lawyers. In addition, she is a founding partner of Advitam IP, an
intellectual property law firm. She also is a past president of the National
Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Chicago Chapter.
Bask in the calming influence of effective IP portfolio management.
Contact Michele today at MKatz@AdvitamIP.com or 312.332.7710
Learn more at www.AdvitamIP.com
A calming
influence
in a chaotic
IP world.
With more than 30 years’ experience
in the IP field and Managing Partner
of the firm since 2008, Laura Collada
is a true strategist and has acted
on several milestone cases. Laura
leads most of the firm’s large and
complex cases. Furthermore, Laura
has a high profile, both locally and
internationally. She is regularly
invited to speak for organisations
such as MARQUES, UIA, ASIPI, FICPI,
ABPI and INTA and is a renowned
teacher at several Law Schools.
She is very active in promoting the
Madrid Protocol and has lectured on
the topic domestically and abroad.
Laura’s practice covers the complete
lifecycle of IP rights. However, since
the recent dramatic changes to the
Mexican legal framework, she has
been increasingly dedicated to the
promotion of the MADRID system
among clients, as well as the new
opposition system that entered into
force. She also continues to design
strategies for clients as well as
litigating.
Laura is the only woman in Mexico who is
the Managing Partner of an IP law firm and a
three-time recipient of the Best IP Lawyer in the
Latin America Award of Euromoney’s Americas
Women in Business Law. She has written about
IP for national newspapers and international
IP magazines. Laura is also a Council Member
of MARQUES and project leader in the
International Trademark Team. Furthermore,
she leads the Madrid Protocol Committee
at ASIPI. She is Co-Chair of the Standing
Committee on Geographical Indications in
AIPPI, as well as a member of the Geographical
Indications Committee of INTA, and a member
of national and international professional
associations, including AIPF, ASIPI (Co-Chair of
the Geographical Indications Committee and
Special Commissions Coordinator of the Madrid
Protocol), AIPLA (member of the Board), ECTA
and PTMG.
Name: Laura Collada
Law firm name:
Dumont
Country: Mexico
Laura advocates for women’s equality by
seeking out female candidates and offering
top positions to female lawyers. She is involved
in several associations (AIPLA, UIA), creating
awareness by speaking out about “glassceiling”
issues at events, including the AIPLA
Women in IP event that took place at Dumont’s
office in Mexico City three years in a row (2016,
2017 and 2018).
Dumont, led by Ms. Collada, proposed to AMPPI
(AIPPI Mexican Chapter) to create a women’s
committee to empower IP women lawyers, to
research the sociological ground why there
are so few positions for women in executive
positions as well as to create awareness among
the firms on our field (IP). The creation of the
committee is a reality today. It started working
on March 2017, and Ms. Collada was the Chair
of the Women’s Committee for two years (2017-
2019).
She is ranked in CHAMBERS LATIN AMERICA
and CHAMBERS GLOBAL as leading lawyer; THE
LEGAL 500 LATIN AMERICA; as recommended
lawyer; IP STARS as Patent Star, Trademarks Star,
and Top 250 Women in IP; WORLD TRADEMARK
REVIEW 1000, as leading lawyer; EXPERTS
GUIDE, as Patents and Trademarks leading
lawyer.
Laura was invited to be part of the expert team
to work on the wording of the amendments
to the Mexican Industry Property Law. She
was asked to write, among all the experts,
the initiative of law as well as the exposition
of reasons. This project of amendments has
been introduced and presented to the Mexican
House of Representatives and turned into law.
As the only female Managing Partner of an IP
firm in Mexico, Ms. Collada acts as an icon to
women who wish to advance their careers in
this field. The women working at Dumont often
choose to stay long-term in order to improve
their knowledge and expertise here, since they
are met with far less bias than is often found at
other firms in Mexico.
This has made Dumont known as a firm in
which women are empowered, acknowledged,
and groomed as lawyers.
Position: Managing Partner
Website: www.dumont.mx
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