Mrs Ariana Lizano > Arias > San Jose, Costa Rica > Lawyer Profile
Arias Offices
CLS Business Center
9no piso / 9th floor
Sabana, San José
Costa Rica
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Mrs Ariana Lizano
Work Department
Biotechnology Law, Information Technology Law and Data Privacy, Intellectual Property and Lifesciences Law, Consumer Protection Regulation
Position
Senior Associate
Career
She initiated her professional career in a Big Four firm, and after 4 years of experience in the corporate law area, she departed to London to study in Queen Mary University of London where she obtained a Law master’s degree in Intellectual Property. She provides support to national and translational companies in protecting, exploiting, and enforcing their trademarks. Ariana manages complex trademark’s portfolios in the region for food, technology, and pharmaceutical sector industries. Furthermore, she assists international companies in the food and personal care industries on their entry into the regional market by developing a trademark strategy, that includes regional registration of key brands, streamlining portfolios, filing non-use cancellation actions and/or nullity actions against third party mark owners, and preparing acquisition agreements. She works side to side with global technology leaders, major fashion industry companies on their brand protection strategies, by conducting enforcement actions, including cease-and-desist letters, Internet take-down requests, and customs actions.
Moreover, Ariana has vast experience prosecuting PCT ´s national phase patent applications for global pharmaceutical, medical devices, and agrochemical companies. She prepared responses to technical examinations and oppositions filed by the Federation of Pharmaceutical Companies of Centro America, for a family of patents directed to pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cancer with a worldwide license agreement valued in millions of dollars, that led to the patents being granted in Costa Rica. Ariana also has expertise in data protection and consumer protection matters.
Languages
Spanish, English
Memberships
- Costa Rican Bar Association
- International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
- Master’s degree in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London (2016).
- Specialization in Notarial and Registration Law, University of the Salle (2015)
- Summer Programme on International Intellectual Property, Chinese University of Hong Kong/ World Trade Institute (2014)
- Law Degree, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, (2013).
Lawyer Rankings
Costa Rica > Intellectual property
The powerhouse intellectual property group at Arias
remains a market leader, coordinating with seven offices in six countries across Central America to employ regional strength when managing and safeguarding the intellectual property portfolios of household-name global corporates (including Bayer), across sectors ranging from pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, consumer goods and chemicals to entertainment, hospitality and the automotive industry. The practice’s comprehensive service covers litigation and enforcement, licensing, brand management and the development of registration strategies for copyrights, trade marks, trade names, slogans and patents. The practice is jointly led by IP authority María Del Pilar López
, who brings expertise to regulatory affairs, personal data protection, and judicial and administrative processes; veteran patent prosecutor Simón Valverde; and biotech patent expert Luis Diego Castro. Key support is provided by senior associate Ariana Lizano, who develops strategies for Costa Rica market entrants in the food and consumer products industries, and associate Valeria Grant, who handles patent registration procedures. Associate María Laura Torres joined in October 2022 from trade mark boutique RJM Abogados.