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Marianella Arias
DIVIMARK ABOGADOS · Costa Rica
DIVIMARK ABOGADOS
Intellectual Property · Costa Rica
DIVIMARK ABOGADOS is one of Costa Rica’s leading and most prestigious law firms specialising in intellectual property matters.
For more than 47 years, the firm has advised multinational companies and some of Costa Rica’s largest corporations by designing and providing the most comprehensive protection for their industrial property in the region.
Today, a group of highly qualified and experienced attorneys and staff provide legal counsel focused on IP affairs, including legal advice and general counsel for the registration of trademarks, design marks, slogans, commercial names, domain names, industrial secrets, patents, industrial designs, copyrights, related rights, infringement and forgery of products, as well as sanitary registrations, among other areas. DIVIMARK ABOGADOS also has a highly successful track record in litigation in IP cases, and its advisers are known for being experienced, knowledgeable, reliable, efficient and up-to-date.
Marianella Arias
Marianella Arias practises in commercial and corporate law, and has assisted well-known national and international corporations. She has also entered into new fields, such as the protection of image rights and sports rights. In matters of IP, she currently provides comprehensive assistance and counselling pertaining to trademarks, commercial names, patents, copyrights and related rights, domain names, enforcement of rights and infringement, as well as counterfeit goods. Meanwhile, she has a notably successful track record in the area of litigation.
Experience
● Founder and first President of the local association of professionals in IP, the Association of Professionals in Intellectual Property of Costa Rica (APPICR), 2007–2009;
● Current President of APPICR for four terms;
● Senior National Delegate before the Administrative Council of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), 2006–2009;
● Senior National Delegate before ASIPI, 2012–2015;
● Current Senior National Delegate before ASIPI, 2015–2018;
● Member of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Judicial Study of the Free Trade Agreement between the US, Central America & the Dominican Republic (ASETLC).
In addition, Marianella has led and coordinated various projects of interest in the field of IP with the Costa Rican governmental authorities, and has filed law bills for enactment before the Costa Rican Congress.
Memberships
● Costa Rican Bar Association;
● Notary Public;
● International Trademark Association (INTA);
● Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI);
● Association of Intellectual Property Professionals of Costa Rica
(APPICR).
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