Mrs Helena Camargo > Posse Herrera Ruiz > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Posse Herrera Ruiz Offices
CRA 7 NO 71-52
TORRE A, PISO 5
BOGOTÁ
Colombia
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Mrs Helena Camargo
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Helena Camargo is a partner at Posse Herrera Ruiz. She leads the IP team, overseeing the practice and focusing on international patent, trademark, copyright, and health registration searches and registrations. She has extensive experience in the management of international trademark and patent portfolios.
Career
Her experience includes strategic advice to clients regarding the worldwide establishment of foreign brands, defense strategies, and opposition procedures; due diligence, organization and management of international portfolios of trademarks and patents, and administrative litigation. Helena’s experience as a litigator involves annulment actions and appeals in Colombia and in other countries. Additionally, she represents clients before the Trademark and Patent Office and before the State Council.
Helena is a lawyer from the Universidad del Rosario and a specialist in Intellectual Property from the Externado de Colombia University.
Languages
She speaks Spanish and English.
Education
• Universidad Externado de Colombia Intellectual Property Specialist, 1998 Bogotá, Colombia
• Universidad del Rosario J.D., 1984 Bogotá, Colombia.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Intellectual property
(Hall of Fame)Posse Herrera Ruiz provides ‘accurate and fast advice’, according to sources. A popular choice for international referrals, the group enjoys close relationships with firms across the globe. It also stands out for its broad experience, which encompasses patents, trade marks, slogans, copyrights and industrial designs, including portfolio management and litigation. Acclaimed as a ‘benchmark for intellectual property in Colombia’, department head Helena Camargo
is recommended for her expertise in all key pillars of IP law. The team also includes senior associate Mónica Bonnett, who largely focuses on life sciences-related matters. Former fellow senior Annabelle Angarita left the firm in April 2023.
Colombia > Life sciences
The life sciences team at Posse Herrera Ruiz acts for clients across a broad range of industries, with strong recent showings in the medical devices and food and beverage spheres. It also records growing activity in work related to the emerging cannabis sector. The group is co-led by IP specialist Helena Camargo, whose practice focuses on patents, trade marks, copyrights and health registrations and permits. Fellow co-head and senior associate Mónica Bonnett handles a range of IP and health registration issues, with notable expertise in the developing cannabis field. Since research concluded, Bonnett has left the firm – effective as of September 2023.
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