Mariana is a patent attorney with more than 13 years of experience in IP. She studied chemistry and law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She also holds a master degree in top management and is a Certified Licensing Professional(R).
She joined BC&B in 2008 where she has had a balanced practice covering patent prosecution, IP transactional matters and litigation, both locally and abroad. More specifically, her practice focuses on the areas of substantive issues of patent litigation, technology transfer, sanitary regulation (linkage system) and strategic knowledge management. She was named partner of the firm in 2018.
She has taught several courses at universities and professional associations. She is a frequent participant in local and international IP forums and regularly publishes articles in different IP specialist media.
She is secretary of the Mexican chapter of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), Latin America liaison of the Women in IP Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), a member of the Patent Committee and Pro Bono Commission of the Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI) and a member of the Standing Committees on Commercialisation of IP and Biotechnology of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).
