Francisco Castillo

Castillo Love Abogados is a law firm based in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with a practice centred on intellectual property. The firm has been named Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year in Guatemala at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, recognising its work protecting brands, inventions and other intangible assets for clients operating in and beyond the country. Francisco Castillo is a partner at the firm, an intellectual property practitioner active in the field in Guatemala.

Intellectual property is the discipline for which the firm has been honoured. It is an area of law concerned with securing and defending the rights attaching to trademarks, patents, designs, copyright and related assets, and it has grown steadily in importance as businesses come to recognise the commercial value of their brands and innovations. In Guatemala, as elsewhere in Central America, companies and international rights holders rely on specialist advisers to register their rights, maintain them and enforce them against infringement.

Work of this kind typically spans the full life cycle of an intellectual property right. It begins with securing protection through registration, whether of a trademark, a patent or a design, and continues through the ongoing administration of those rights, including renewals and portfolio management. Where rights are challenged or infringed, it extends into enforcement and dispute resolution. A firm focused on this field is equipped to guide clients through each of these stages, combining technical knowledge of the registration systems with an understanding of how to protect a brand or invention in practice.

Guatemala serves as an important market in Central America, and intellectual property practitioners there frequently act as a gateway for international companies seeking to protect their brands across the region. This work calls for familiarity with local registration procedures and legal requirements, together with the ability to coordinate with rights holders and advisers in other jurisdictions. A firm such as Castillo Love Abogados is positioned to support both local businesses building their own brands and foreign companies extending their intellectual property protection into the Guatemalan market.

With its focus on intellectual property and its base in Guatemala City, Castillo Love Abogados offers clients specialist expertise in an increasingly significant area of business law. Its recognition as Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year in Guatemala at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 affirms the standing the firm has built in the field, and the contribution of partners such as Francisco Castillo in helping clients secure and defend the brands, inventions and creative assets on which their commercial success depends.