Daniel Legaspi > Santamarina y Steta > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Santamarina y Steta
CAMPOS ELISEOS 345, FLOORS 2, 3 AND 11
COL. CHAPULTEPEC POLANCO
11560 MEXICO, D.F.
Mexico
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Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

Partner

Career

With more than 12 years of professional experience, Daniel is. focused on issues regarding intellectual property, franchising, licensing and technology.

His practice is focused on assisting clients to maximize the profitability of their intangible assets by developing and executing custom-made strategies on a national and international level.

In addition, he currently leads the firm’s Technology Working Group focused on assisting companies in the digital environment that have evolved or entered Web 3.0, IoT, IoB, and the Metaverse.

Languages

English, Spanish

Memberships

Representative of the Presidency for the Protection of Intellectual Property in the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism of Mexico City (CANACO).

Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI).

International Trademark Association (INTA).

INTA Leadership Development.

Inter-American Association of Industrial Property (ASIPI).

ASIPI Emprende Program.

Intangible Valuation and Intellectual Property Monetization Committee of ASIPI.

Education

JD

2011, Universidad Iberoamericana en la Ciudad de México, Mexico.

LL.M. in Industrial Property, Copyright and New Technologies.

2018, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.

Personal

CONFERENCES

He has been a panelist, speaker and professor on topics related to intellectual property, entrepreneurship and technology through the International Trademark Association, Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI), ExpoLicensing, Tec de Monterrey, Universidad Anáhuac, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) of Venezuela, Dirección Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual (DINAPI) of Paraguay, the German Chambers of Commerce of Latin America and the Online Seminar on the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property organized by the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and Universidad Panamericana.

Lawyer Rankings

Mexico > Intellectual property

A very modern team’ at Santamarina y Steta assists its the clients with registration of sizeable IP portfolios, as well as ongoing protection, prosecution and IP litigation. As a full-service firm, multi-practice teams can coordinate on transactional matters, with the IP team available to support on associate IP and intangible-asset issues. José Pablo Pérez Zea is well-versed in advising national and international companies on franchising and licensing, and also has specialisms in both patent and trade mark prosecution, copyright, unfair competition and plant variety matters, among other areas. Pérez Zea co-heads the practice with Daniel Legaspi, a partner since January 2022, who has drawn in a number of new clients since his appointment to the promotion, and works across the trade marks, patents, plant varieties, appellation of origin, copyright, industrial secrets, licensing and litigation areas. Counsel Efraín Olmedo is admired by clients as ‘a great litigation lawyer’ and acts on all contentious IP matters.